The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World

by F. Zuckerman

Overview

In 1883, the Russian police established the Foreign Agentura in Paris. The bureau's brief: to forewarn Tsardom of terrorist plans and, if possible, to defuse acts of terrorism against high personages by revolutionaries operating under European sanctuary. As the revolutionary emigration expanded, the Foreign Agentura reacted by spreading its tentacles across Europe and England. With the help of their European colleagues, the Tsar's agents tackled and drove back this terrorist force, proving themselves invaluable in the evolution of political policing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403904386
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/18/2002
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

FREDERIC S. ZUCKERMAN is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Adelaide. He has written several articles on the history of late imperial Russia and is the author of the groundbreaking study of the Russian political police system entitled, The Tsarist Police in Russian Society, 1880-1917.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: TURMOIL, ÉMIGRÉS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL POLICING IN WESTERN EUROPE Europe in Turmoil: Protest, Violence and Maintaining Order in a Changing World Émigré Lives: The Russian Revolutionary Abroad Brothers in Arms? The Beginning of International Police Co-operation and the Russian Revolutionary Emigration PART TWO: THE FOREIGN AGENTURA - THE RUSSIAN POLITICAL POLICE ABROAD The Russian Political Police Abroad: The Early Years Bureaucrats and Case Officers: The Sinews of the Paris Office Europeans and Russians in the Service of the Tsarist Secret Police: The Detectives and Undercover Agents in Exile P.I. Rachkovskii: Adventure, Intrigues and the Foreign Agentura, 1884-1902 Alignments and Alliances: L.A. Rataev and A.M. Harting, 1902-1905 The 1905 evolution and the Foreign Agentura: Hartling's Campaign Against Munitions Contraband 1905-1908 A.A Krasil'nikov and the Reshaping of the Foreign Agentura: Aspects of the Problems of Political Reform, 1909-1941 A Revolutionary Strikes Back: Vladimir Burtsev Against the Tsarist Secret Police

Editorial Reviews

'This is an important work of original scholarship.' - Charles King, Georgetown University, USA

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