
The Russian Secret Police
Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970
Ronald Hingley(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-0-367-75252-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Adult education, General, Postgraduate, Professional, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-75252-1 (9780367752521)
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Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970
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Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970
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The Russian Secret Police
Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970
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1st Edition
Routledge
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Content
1. From the Oprichnina to the Decembrists (1565-1825) 2. The Third Section under Nicholas I (1826-1855) 3. The Third Section under Alexander II (1855-1880) 4. The Nineteenth-Century Okhrana (1880-1900) 5. The Okhrana in the Age of Assassinations (1901-1908) 6. The Decline and Fall of the Okhrana (1908-1917) 7. The Cheka (1917-1922) 8. The GPU/OGPU (1922-1934) 9. The NKVD under Yagoda and Yezhov (1934-1938) 10. Beria and the NKVD/KGB (1938-1945) 11. Beria and the MVD/MGB (1945-1953) 12. The KGB under Krushchev (1954-1964) 13. The KGB after Krushchev (1964-1970)