page_title: Józef Unszlicht
hierarchical_section_title: Józef Unszlicht
caption_attribution_description: English: Jozef Unszlicht Русский: Иосиф Уншлихт (1879—1938)
context_page_description: Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht was a Bolshevik revolutionary activist, one of the founders of the Cheka, and Soviet government official from Polish Masovian region. Unszlicht participated in and in fact initiated some of the worst excesses of the Bolshevik revolution including mass murders of political opponents. In 1934, he was replaced by Genrikh Yagoda who continued and amplified Unszlicht's previous policies.
  A member of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania from 1900 and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1906, Unszlicht took part in Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution and in 1918 joined the Red Army.
context_section_description: Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht (Russian: Ио́сиф Станисла́вович У́ншлихт;  nicknames "Jurowski", "Leon") (1879 - 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary activist, one of the founders of the Cheka, and Soviet government official from Polish Masovian region. Unszlicht participated in and in fact initiated some of the worst excesses of the Bolshevik revolution including mass murders of political opponents. In 1934, he was replaced by Genrikh Yagoda who continued and amplified Unszlicht's previous policies.
  A member of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania from 1900 and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1906 (following their merger), Unszlicht took part in Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution and in 1918 joined the Red Army.
caption: Head of the Chief Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet (1935)
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