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  Glossary of Organisations: Le
Using the positions they had in the Soviet government and Cheka, forged credentials were produced for two members of the party to enter the German embassy.
After failing to kill Mirbach at point-blank range with their revolvers, they shot him in the back of the head while he attempted to flee, and dropped a bomb in the room he was approaching.
On finding the forged credentials the assassins left behind, Dzerzhinskii went to the Pokrovskii Barracks (which housed the Cheka detachment the assassins belonged) and demanded the assassins be turned over to him.
www.marxists.org /glossary/orgs/l/e.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Russian Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Following a reorganisation of the People's Army, his forces captured Perm and extended their control into Soviet territory.
In Soviet territory, following the Fifth Congress of Soviets in July, two Left SRs — Yakov Blyumkin and Nikolay Andreyev — assassinated the German ambassador in Moscow, Count Mirbach, in an attempt to provoke the Germans into renewing hostilities.
Other Left SRs captured a number of prominent Bolsheviks and attempted to rouse Red Army troops against the regime.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Russian_Civil_War   (2154 words)

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