The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World

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.

Author: F. Zuckerman
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/18/2002
Pages: 277
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.58w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781403904386

About the Author
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.