1st Edition
The Russian Secret Police Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565–1970
By Ronald Hingley
Copyright 1970
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
322 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. 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 outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section... Read more
1. From the Oprichnina to the Decembrists (1565-1825) 2. The Third Section under Nicholas I (1826-1855) 3. The Third Section under Alexander II (1855-1880) 4. The Nineteenth-Century Okhrana (1880-1900) 5. The Okhrana in the Age of Assassinations (1901-1908) 6. The Decline and Fall of the Okhrana (1908-1917) 7. The Cheka (1917-1922) 8. The GPU/OGPU (1922-1934) 9. The NKVD under Yagoda and Yezhov (1934-1938) 10. Beria and the NKVD/KGB (1938-1945) 11. Beria and the MVD/MGB (1945-1953) 12. The KGB under Krushchev (1954-1964) 13. The KGB after Krushchev (1964-1970)
Biography
Ronald Hingley
