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Russian Secret Police
Originally published in 1930, these are the memoirs of the last Tsarist chief of police, Okhrana, who was arrested by the revolutionaries, refused to be a Bolshevik spy, escaped to France, became a railway porter and died penniless.
Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differing interpretations of communism and local histories.
Karen met Lambert at a party in Tottenham in north London in May 1987, around the time his relationship with Charlotte was falling apart. Karen was a 24yearold who had come to the capital to find work and was intrigued by Lambert's ...
Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule.
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.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This book is a study of the operational center of Tsar Nicholas II's secret police (the Okhrana or Okhranka) during the peak of its activities and notoriety. It explores the...
83 84 85 86 87 88 ibid. ibid, p 2. Chin Peng, op cit, p 155. ... 'thousands of dollars arrears in salary' (CO 717/183, Pan Malayan Review, No 2, Part 1, 'Sino-Malaya Relations', Secret Political Intelligence Review, 19 January 1949).
This is the first book to portray the history of the Russian secret police - the so-called 'Okhrana' - its personnel, world view and interaction with both government and people during the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II. The secret ...