This is the first book to portray the history of the Russian secret police - the so-called 'Okhrana' - its personnel, world view and interaction with both government and people during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II. The secret police harassed, infiltrated and subverted Russian radical and progressive society as it struggled to preserve Tsardom's traditional political culture in the face of Russia's rapid socio-economic transformation - a transformation which the forces of order scarcely understood, yet deeply despised.

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FREDERIC S. ZUCKERMAN

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List of Tables - Acknowledgements - A Note on Transliteration and Dates - A Note on Police Terminology - Abbreviations and Glossary - PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE - A Comparative Introduction - Law and the Repression of Political Crime in Russia, 1826-1902 - The Development of Modern Political Policing Institutions in Russia, 1800-1902 - PART 2: DETECTIVES, SECRET AGENTS AND POLICE CHIEFS - Fontanka's Foot Soldiers: The Professional Lives of Russia's Political Police Detectives - Sekretnye Sotrudniki: The Lives of Russia's Undercover Agents - Making A Career: The Evolution of Professionalism within Fontanka - PART 3: THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MODERN POLICE STATE? THE POLITICAL POLICE AND THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, 1902-1904 - Spinning the Web: Plehve and the Expansion of the Political Police Network - Time of Experiment, Time of Repression, 1902-1904 - PART 4: REVOLUTION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND COLLAPSE: THE TSARIST POLITICAL POLICE AND RUSSIAN SOCIETY, 1904-1917 - P.D. Sviatopolk-Mirskii and A.A. Lopukhin: The Political Police and Mirskii's 'Spring' - The Political Police and the 1905 Revolution, Part I: The Descent into Chaos, January to November - The Political Police and the 1905 Revolution, Part II: Durnovo, Rachkovshii and Internal Warfare - Stolypin and the Russian Political Police, 1906-1911 - S.P. Beletskii and V.F. Dzhunkovskii and the Forces of Modernity within Russian Society - Illusion and Reality: Into the Abyss 1915-1917 - Epilogue - Bibliography - Index