Železný, nebo nerezový Felix? Felix Dzeržinskij jako symbol revolučního fanatismu, banalizace bezpráví a pochybné demokracie v sovětské éře i postsovětském Rusku
Journal: Soudobé dějiny
Year: 2022

The article discusses the cult associated with the personality of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877&#8211;1926), a revolutionary and the founder of the political police in the Soviet Union, and the changing meanings of this cult in various stages of the history of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Thanks to Dzerzhinsky, as the head of the most significant repressive component, Soviet state terror acquired a very specific institutionalized form. The image of Dzerzhinsky as the basis for