The Tsar's will was enforced by a large police system that would report suspicious behaviour and destroy subversive groups: The Tsarist army was an important part of the autocracy. The senior ...
While the People's Rights Party was small and short-lived owing to repression by the Tsarist political police, it has been remembered for its transitional place between the 19th Century Russian ...
Appointing ex-Tsarist officers was questioned ... The Cheka, the Bolshevik Secret Police, hunted down and arrested anyone who was suspected of hostility towards the Bolsheviks.