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Fontanka 16
Charles A. Ruud
Sergei A. Stepanov
其他書名
The Tsars' Secret Police
出版
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
, 1999
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
History / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Russia / General
Political Science / Law Enforcement
Social Science / Regional Studies
ISBN
0773524843
9780773524842
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TabKcOMnrc0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.