The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Turmoil, Émigrés and the Development of Political Policing in Western Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Europe in Turmoil: Protest, Violence and Maintaining Order in a Changing World

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 3-28

   3. Émigré Lives: the Russian Revolutionary Abroad

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 29-55

   4. Brothers in Arms? The Beginnings of International Police Co-operation and the Russian Revolutionary Emigration

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 56-70

3. The Foreign Agentura: the Russian Secret Police Abroad

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. The Russian Secret Police Abroad: the Early Years

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 73-86

   3. Bureaucrats and Case Officers: the Sinews of the Paris Office

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 87-101

   4. Europeans and Russians in the Service of the Tsarist Secret Police: the Detectives and Undercover Agents in Exile

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 102-123

   5. P. I. Rachkovskii: Adventure, Intrigue and the Foreign Agentura, 1884–1902

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 124-150

   6. Alignments and Alliances: L. A. Rataev and A. M. Harting, 1902–1905

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 151-165

   7. The 1905 Revolution and the Foreign Agentura: Harting’s Campaign Against Munitions Contraband, 1905–1908

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 166-177

   8. A. A. Krasil’nikov and the Reshaping of the Foreign Agentura: Aspects of the Problems of Political Police Reform, 1909–1914

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 178-192

   9. A Revolutionary Strikes Back: Vladimir Burtsev Against the Tsarist Secret Police, 1907–1914

      • Fredric S. Zuckerman

      Pages 193-211

   10. Conclusion and Epilogue

       • Fredric S. Zuckerman

       Pages 212-222

4. Back Matter

   Pages 223-277

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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.

• England
• Europe
• exile
• migration
• revolution
• Russia

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

• University of Adelaide, Australia

  Fredric S. Zuckerman

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.

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