Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police by Ruud

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Book Title
Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police
Topic
Russia
Narrative Type
Russia
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ISBN
9780773517875
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0773517871
ISBN-13
9780773517875
eBay Product ID (ePID)
740761

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
424 Pages
Publication Name
Fontanka 16 : the Tsars' Secret Police
Language
English
Subject
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Law Enforcement
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Author
Charles A. Ruud, Sergei A. Stepanov
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
26.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
00-340629
Reviews
"Looking at the opposition movement from the police perspectives, Fontanka 16 makes one think differently about Okhranka. The various episodes (Azeff, Bogrov, Beilis, and so on) are handled sensitively and are exciting reading." John L.H. Keep, author of Last of the Empires: A History of the USSR, 1945-1991, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.2/83/0947
Synopsis
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., From police headquarters at Fontanka 16 to the secret offices in major Russian post offices where specialists opened and read correspondence, the Okhranka blanketed the huge Russian empire with a network of secret agents and informers. In many cases they were involved in a desperate effort to track down terrorists before they could assassinate government officials and members of the imperial family. Charles Ruud and Sergei Stepanov have mined police archives, including Moscow's State Archive of the Russian Federation and the archives of the Hoover Institution, to produce this first post-Soviet look at the Okhranka's covert operations, which spread as far as Western Europe. In many ways Fontanka 16 reveals as much about the enemies of the tsars as the police who fought them. Although each side saw its cause as a struggle for good over evil, the authors show that the two sides strongly resembled one another in method, psychology, and morality. In this strange nether world of intrigue and deception, police agents often assisted revolutionaries and a number of former revolutionaries rose through the ranks of the secret police. The authors shed new light on the supposed anti-Semitism of the imperial government, as well as the origins of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
LC Classification Number
HV8225.7.O54R8813

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