Okhrana - Wikipedia
Revelations of the Okhrana's earlier abuses heightened public hostility towards the secret police after the 1917 February Revolution and made it very dangerous to be a political policeman. That fact, along with the St. Petersburg Soviet 's insistence on the dissolution of the regular Tsarist police force, as well as of the political police ...
Okhranka | Tsarist Era, Secret Police, Surveillance | Britannica
Okhranka, (1881–1917), prerevolutionary Russian secret-police organization that was founded to combat political terrorism and left-wing revolutionary activity.
Enforcing Russian autocracy - Alpha History
Tsarism was also protected and bolstered by a systematic program of censorship, counter-revolutionary espionage and police activity. The last and best-known tsarist secret police force was the Okhrana, formed in the wake of the 1881 assassination of Alexander II.
to investigate tsarist secret police offices and practices inside the Empire in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Warsaw—as well as in Paris—with a view to prosecuting police officials of the ousted regime.
Double Exposure: Russia's Secret Police under the Last Tsars
Oct 29, 2015 · A new exhibition, Double Exposure: Russia’s Secret Police under the Last Tsars, is based on one of the most extraordinary collections held in the Hoover Library & Archives: the records of the Paris headquarters of the Russian Imperial secret police, known as the Okhrana.
Third Department | Tsarist, Intelligence, Surveillance | Britannica
Third Department, office created by Emperor Nicholas I (July 15 [July 3, old style], 1826) to conduct secret police operations. Designed by Count A.Kh. Benckendorff, who was also its first chief administrator (1826–44), the department was responsible for political security.
The Tsarist Secret Police and Russian Society, 1880-1917
The Tsarist Secret Police and Russian Society, 1880-1917. Alexander II's Great Reforms of the early 1860s unleashed hopes among Russians for a true civil society resulting in increased...
Fontanka 16 takes a fresh look at the feared Russian tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, during the period of the imperial regime leading up to the Revolution of 1917.
Terror and Policing in Revolutionary Russia - Boston University
Fontanka 16: The Tsars’ Secret Police. This work, based largely off of Soviet documents declassified in 1989, looks at the Russian tsarist secret police, the Okhranka, during the period of the imperial regime leading up to the Revolution of 1917.
The Russian Secret Police - Google Books
May 30, 2021 · 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...