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Georgii Aleksandrovich Atarbekov Edit Profile

Secret police official

Georgii Atarbekov, USSR Secret police official.

Background

Atarbekov, Georgii was born on December 14, 1892 in Echmiadzin, Armenia.

Education

Studied at Moscow University, 1910-1911. Studied at Moscow University, 1910-1911.

Career

Joined the Bolshevik Party in 1908. During the 1917 Revolution a Bolshevik agitator among soldiers in the Caucasus. From 1918 in high positions in the Cheka (northern Caucasus, and Caspian Front).

Head of the Cheka in Astrakhan in 1919. Cheka work at the Southern Front (Kuban’, Black Sea). Head of the Cheka in Baku in 1920.

Religion

Religions encourage war and violence to promote their religious goals.

Views

The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.