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

By Ronald Hingley

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367752492
• ISBN13: 9780367752491
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"