Organizations of the Russian Revolution

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated as VChK (), and commonly known as the Cheka (), was the first Soviet secret police organization. It was established on by the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, and was led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. By the end of the Russian Civil War in 1922, the Cheka had at least 200,000 personnel.

executive leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

early 20th century Russian monarchist movement

Representing Body of the Russian Empire

former Parliament

Russian volunteer paramilitary units

legislature of the Russian SFSR (1917-1937)

counterrevolutionary government in Russia formed in 1918

former Soviet republic

political interparietal entity

interim government in Transcaucasia

government of the Russia SFSR

1917 Russian political committee

legislative body in Bessarabia

The Rumcherod () was a short-lived organ of Soviet power in the South-Western part of Russian Empire that functioned during May 1917–May 1918. The name stands as the Russian language abbreviation for its full name Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of the Romanian Front, Black Sea Fleet, and Odessa Oblast ().

military unit

Russian Civil War

autonomous Region within the RSFSR (1918-1923)

Russian anarcho-communist organisation

anti-Soviet organization active in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in the early 1920s

Russian court

USSR

The Union of Mladorossy () was a political group of Russian émigré monarchists (mostly living in Europe) who advocated a hybrid of Russian monarchy and the Soviet system, best evidenced by their motto "Tsar and the Soviets".

1917 political organisation in Tashkent, Russian Turkestan

Antikvariat () was a Russian department of the Ministry of Trade set up by Lenin in 1921 following the Russian Revolution to handle the sale and export of art pieces acquired by the revolutionary government from Russian museums such as the Hermitage and Gatchina Palace, from Russian churches, and from Russian elites who either had been forced to surrender them to the new government, had fled the country without them, or were executed during the revolution. Among these state treasures were 30 of the 40 Fabergé eggs that had been held by the Moscow Armory following the abdication of the last Rus

army existing between the February and October 1917 revolutions

Obliskomzap (), short for Regional Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants Deputies of the Western Region and Front (), was an organ for Soviet power in the Western Region (from September 1918, the Western Commune) claiming governing authority in the Belarusian lands not under German or Austro-Hungarian occupation from late 1917 throughout 1918. It was to function as the highest body of legislative power, between the holding of congresses of soviets, in Vitebsk Governorate, Mogilev Governorate, Minsk Governorate, Vilna Governorate (except areas under German occupat

Vsevobuch (), a portmanteau for "Universal Military Training" (), was a system of compulsory military training for men practiced in the Russian SFSR governed by the Chief Administration of Universal Military Training of the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs.

heads of Soviet ministries

The Moscow City Council (), in short Mossoviet (), an abbreviation of Moscow Soviet (), was established following the February Revolution . Initially it was a parallel, shadow city administration of Moscow, Russia run by left-wing parties. Following the October Revolution it became the city administration of Moscow throughout the Soviet period (1918–1991).

Russian provisional government