The Cheka’s police power expanded and self-perfected after the civil war ended.

Evidence

Immediately after the civil war in Russia, Pravda stated “that the formula ‘All power to the Soviets’ had been replaced by ‘All power to the Chekas.’…The end of the armed hostilities reduced military control …but left a ramified Cheka which perfected itself by simplification of its operation” (Souvarine, op. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2686

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the pattern of secret police consolidating power after open conflict—parallels to state bureaucracy mechanisms relevant to the reader’s scaffold on bureaucratic rationality enabling mass exclusion.