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

The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970 Hingley Ronald Wydawca: Taylor & Francis Ltd Data wydania: 2022 ISBN: 9780367752521 Liczba stron: 318 Format: 234 x 156 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: 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.