# The Chekist — The Bolshevik Myth character guide

> The Chekist in The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the young Chekist

**First appearance:** 0036-xxxi-the-cheka

## Who they are

A member of the Cheka secret police.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_rivalry_

The Chekist is a secret police agent who interrogates and threatens the narrator.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_rivalry_

The Chekist is a secret police agent who interrogates and threatens the narrator.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_rivalry_

The Chekist is a secret police agent who interrogates and threatens the narrator.

## In the story

### [VII: The Market](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/vii-the-market)

Confronts the narrator at the market but allows passage after seeing Chicherin's stamp; later leads the raid.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/ii)

Prehde, the Chief of the Ossobiy Otdel, is a Lettish revolutionary who carries out death sentences and has absolute authority over the border district.

### [Rest Homes for Workers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xvi-rest-homes-for-workers)

The Cheka maintains control over sealed warehouses and frowns upon the narrator's suggestion to inventory supplies, especially coming from a non-Party member.

### [XX: Other People](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xx-other-people)

The Boston sailor, now a Cheka agent, is mentioned as having joined the secret police.

### [A Bolshevik Trial](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxiv-a-bolshevik-trial)

The young woman who brings the charge against the prisoner; she is motivated by personal revenge and is a member of the Cheka.

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