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The Red Terror was a campaign of mass arrests and executions conducted by the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia in 1918–1922.
Red Terror may also refer to:
- Communist terrorism
- Left-wing terrorism
- Cultural Revolution, mass violence by the Red Guards in China from August 1966 to September 1976
- Revolutionary terror
- The last six weeks of the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution in 1794
- Red Terror (Hungary), a series of atrocities by the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919
- Red Terror (Spain), various atrocities by Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s
- Red Terror (Ethiopia), a violent political campaign to annihilate the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party in Ethiopia in 1977–1978
- Red Terror in Finland, various brutal acts committed by Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War in 1918
- Leftist errors, sometimes called the Red Terror, a period in Yugoslavia (1941–1942) during World War II
- Red Terror (Greece), from approximately 1942 or 1943 until the end of the Greek Civil War in 1949