TV Show Details
Air Date:May 18th, 1982
Last Air Date:May 21st, 1982
Network:Central Television USSR
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:Russian
December 20th (1982)
TV ShowCentral Television USSR
Miniseries
Plot
Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.