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Lavrenti Beria: (1899-1953) Soviet security and intelligence official, who rose from the Cheka until becoming Head of State security; managed Soviet nuclear program; attempted to assume power after the death of Joseph Stalin but was executed by a coalition of other seekers of power ^[e]

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• Soviet Union [r]: A Communist state, which took over the Russian Empire, after the Russian Revolution of 1917 that existed from 1922 to 1991; the major part now extant as the Russian Federation ^[e]
  • Organs of State Security [r]: Add brief definition or description
    • Cheka [r]: Initial Communist secret police formed by the Bolsheviks; chekist became a generic Soviet term for the many-named successor Organs of State Security ^[e]
• Joseph Stalin [r]: (1878 - 1953) The head of Russia's Communist ("Bolshevik") party and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death. ^[e]