The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970

ISBN-13: 9780367752491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 318 str.

Ronald Hingley

Opis

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 over all fields of Russian life by an authoritarian state.

Spis treści

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)

O autorze

Ronald Hingley