MOISEI SOLOMONOVICH URITSKY


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Now that the great revolution has come one feels that however intelligent Lenin may be he begins to fade beside the genius of Trotsky
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Lenin, Uritsky, and other Bolshevik leaders were attacked in 1918. Lenin was wounded but Utrtsky died, and this triggered the attacks on the other Russian factions by the Bolsheviks known as the “Red Terror.”

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Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky
  • Born: January 14, 1873
  • Died: August 17, 1918
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Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky (Ukrainian: Мойсей Соломонович Урицький; Russian: Моисей Соломонович Урицкий; August 17, 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was Chief of Cheka of the Petrograd Soviet. Uritsky was assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser, a military cadet, who was executed shortly afterwards.