Research Catalog

Title

Fontanka 16 : the tsars' secret police / Charles A. Ruud and Sergei A. Stepanov.

Author

Ruud, Charles A., 1933-

Publication

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Stepanov, S. A.

Description

ix, 394 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. It is a fascinating account of the development of a secret police organization that was deeply rooted in tsarist Russia but provided a model for Soviet police organizations."--Jacket

Alternative Title

• Fontanka sixteen
• Fontanka, sixteen

Subject

• Russia. Okhrannyi︠a︡ otdi︠e︡lenīi︠a︡ > History
• Geschichte 1800-1917
• Police > Russia > History
• Secret service > Russia > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. Double Agents and Dissidents -- 7. Azeff, the Super Agent -- 8. Whistle-blowers in the Ranks of the Okhranka -- 9. The Assassination of Stolypin -- pt. 4. The Political Police and the Jewish Question -- 10. Protocols, Masons, Liberals -- 11. The Tsarist Police and Pogroms -- 12. The Beilis Case and Damage Control -- pt. 5. The Decline of the Okhranka -- 13. The Struggle for the Okhranka -- 14. Police Officials and Rasputin -- 15. Epilogue for the Okhranka.

ISBN

0773517871 :

LCCN

cn^98901352^

OCLC

• 45172454
• SCSB-11320328

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library