The Tsarist Secret Police in Russian Society, 1880–1917

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-9
Law and the Repression of Political Crime in Russia, 1826–1902....Pages 10-18
The Development of Modern Political Policing Institutions in Russia, 1800–1902....Pages 19-27
Front Matter....Pages 30-30
Fontanka's Foot Soldiers: The Professional Lives of Russia's Political Police Detectives....Pages 31-38
Sekretnye Sotrudniki: The Lives of Russia's Undercover Agents....Pages 39-57
Making a Career: The Evolution of Professionalism within Fontanka....Pages 58-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Spinning the Web: Plehve and the Expansion of the Political Police Network....Pages 83-99
Time of Experiment, Time of Repression, 1902–1904....Pages 100-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
P.D. Sviatopolk-Mirskii and A.A. Lopukhin: The Political Police and Mirskii's ‘Spring’....Pages 123-142
The Political Police and the 1905 Revolution, I: The Descent into Chaos, January–November....Pages 143-164
The Political Police and the 1905 Revolution, II: Durnovo, Rachkovskii and Internal Warfare....Pages 165-181
Stolypin and the Russian Political Police, 1906–1911....Pages 182-201
S.P. Beletskii and V.F. Dzhunkovskii and the Forces of Modernity within Russian Society....Pages 202-224
Illusion and Reality: Into the Abyss, 1915–1917....Pages 225-244
Back Matter....Pages 253-345