The Tsarist Secret Police In Russian Society 1880 1917

Author : F. Zuckerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230371442
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tsarist Secret Police in Russian Society, 1880-1917 written by F. Zuckerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-04-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : F. Zuckerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230514936
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad written by F. Zuckerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1883, the Russian police established the Foreign Agentura in Paris. The bureau's brief: to forewarn Tsardom of terrorist plans and, if possible, to defuse acts of terrorism against high personages by revolutionaries operating under European sanctuary. As the revolutionary emigration expanded, the Foreign Agentura reacted by spreading its tentacles across Europe and England. With the help of their European colleagues, the Tsar's agents tackled and drove back this terrorist force, proving themselves invaluable in the evolution of political policing.

Author : Frederic Zuckerman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403904386
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paris Review Book written by Frederic Zuckerman and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how in 1883, the Russian police established the Foreign Agentura in Paris. The bureau's brief: to forewarn Tsardom of terrorist plans and, if possible, to defuse acts of terrorism against high personages by revolutionaries operating under European sanctuary. As the revolutionary emigration expanded, the Foreign Agentura reacted by spreading its tentacles across Europe and England. With the help of their European colleagues, the Tsar's agents tackled and drove back this terrorist force, proving themselves invaluable in the evolution of political policing.

Author : Charles A. Ruud
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773524842
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fontanka 16 written by Charles A. Ruud and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account describes the development of a secret police force that was rooted in tsarist Russia, but provided a model for Soviet police organizations. Ruud (history, U. of Western Ontario) and Stepanov (history, Russian Independent Institute of Social and Nationality Problems, Moscow) provide a comprehensive study of the tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, which was designed to catch terrorists before they assassinated Russia's leaders, during the period leading up to the Revolution of 1917. The book explores the Okhranka and its allied organization, the Gendarmes, through particular cases rather than in strictly institutional terms. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : A. T. Vassilyev
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787205126
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ochrana written by A. T. Vassilyev and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1930, these are the memoirs of the last Tsarist chief of police, Okhrana, who was arrested by the revolutionaries, refused to be a Bolshevik spy, escaped to France, became a railway porter and died penniless. The book tells of the part he played in Rasputin’s death and his experiences during WWI and the Revolutions, and the comparison between the Okhrana and the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, in which he describes a kinder, gentler Okhrana. Richly illustrated throughout.

Author : Fredric S. Zuckerman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814796737
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tsarist Secret Police and Russian Society, 1880-1917 written by Fredric S. Zuckerman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karakozov in 1866, Russian political life became trapped within a vicious circle of political reaction, growing disillusionment with the government and intensifying political dissent that increasingly manifested itself in acts of terrorism against Tsarist officials.

Author : Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438464630
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth of the Russian Revolution written by Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into English. Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev was chief of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in the two years preceding the 1917 Russian Revolution. This book presents his memoirs—translated in English for the first time—interposed with those of his wife, Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva. The general’s writings, which he titled The Truth of the Russian Revolution, provide a front-row view of Tsar Nicholas II’s final years, the revolution, and its tumultuous aftermath. Globachev describes the political intrigue and corruption in the capital and details his office’s surveillance over radical activists and the mysterious Rasputin. His wife takes a more personal approach, depicting her tenacity in the struggle to keep her family intact and the family’s flight to freedom. Her descriptions vividly portray the privileges and relationships of the noble class that collapsed with the empire. Translator Vladimir G. Marinich includes biographical information, illustrations, a glossary, and a timeline to contextualize this valuable primary source on a key period in Russian history.

Author : Ronald Hingley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000371352
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Secret Police written by Ronald Hingley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section and Okhrana and their role in countering Russian revolutionary groups, and examines the Soviet agencies as they assumed the roles of policeman, judge and executioner. This masterly evaluation of Russian and Soviet secret police makes extensive use of hard-to-find Russian documentary sources, and is the first such research that studies Russian political security (Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet) as a whole.

Author : E. Anthony Swift
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925874
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia written by E. Anthony Swift and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His extensively researched study, full of anecdotes from the theater world of the day, shows how these people's theaters became a major arena in which the cultural contests of late imperial Russia were played out and how they contributed to the emergence of an urban consumer culture during this period of rapid social and political change. Swift illuminates many aspects of the story of these popular theaters—the cultural politics and aesthetic ambitions of theater directors and actors, state censorship politics and their role in shaping the theatrical repertoire, and the theater as a vehicle for social and political reform. He looks at roots of the theaters, discusses specific theaters and performances, and explores in particular how popular audiences responded to the plays.

Author : Jane Mcdermid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317888979
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930 written by Jane Mcdermid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women's working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In the process the authors reveal how the stereotypical portrayal of Russian women's work as a struggle of endurance and sacrifice distorts and oversimplifies the reality of their experience between 1880 and 1930.