Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police 9780773567450
Fontanka 16 takes a fresh look at the feared Russian tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, during the period of the imper
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English Pages 424 [421] Year 1999
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Illustrations
PART ONE: HISTORY, TRADITION, PRECEDENTS
1 Political Investigation in Russia to 1825
2 Imperial Security Centres at Fontanka 16, 1826 to the 1870s
3 From the Third Section to the Department of Police
PART TWO: STRUCTURE, METHODS, AGENTS
4 The Okhranka as a Compiler of Information
5 The Foreign Agency, 1884–1917
6 The Challenge of Quelling the Fighting Squads, 1906–1909
PART THREE: DOUBLE AGENTS AND DISSIDENTS
7 Azeff, the Super Agent
8 Whistle-blowers in the Ranks of the Okhranka
9 The Assassination of Stolypin
PART FOUR: THE POLITICAL POLICE AND THE JEWISH QUESTION
10 Protocols, Masons, Liberals
11 The Tsarist Police and Pogroms
12 The Beilis Case and Damage Control
PART FIVE: THE DECLINE OF THE OKHRANKA
13 The Struggle for the Okhranka
14 Police Officials and Rasputin
15 Epilogue for the Okhranka
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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