1. red terror - Noun
2. Red terror - Proper noun
red terror (countable and uncountable, plural red terrors)
(politics) Coordinated violence committed by communists, socialists, or other left-wing groups against (actual or perceived) class enemies.
Red Terror
(politics, history) Any one of several specific red terrors in history.
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests. Norman Davies
Fanya Kaplan shot and wounded Lenin triggering the " Red Terror " - the Cheka implicated all malcontents in a grand conspiracy that warranted a full-scale campaign. Source: Internet
During the Red Terror the Cheka carried out at least 250,000 summary executions of " enemies of the people " with estimates reaching above a million. Source: Internet
G. Maximoff) In response to the anarchists' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as " Red Terror ". Source: Internet
The booklet included instructions on how to quell ideological fears of the Soviet Union, such as directions to claim that the Red Terror was a figment of Nazi imagination. Source: Internet
The Red Terror, implemented by Dzerzhinsky on September 5, 1918, was vividly described by the Red Army journal Krasnaya Gazeta: : "Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Source: Internet