{"product_id":"the-russian-secret-police-ronald-hingley-9780367752491","title":"The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations 1565-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsarist Third Section and Okhrana and their role in countering Russian revolutionary groups, and examines the Soviet agencies as they assumed the roles of policeman, judge and executioner. This masterly evaluation of Russian and Soviet secret police makes extensive use of hard-to-find Russian documentary sources, and is the first such research that studies Russian political security (Muscovite, Imperial and Soviet) as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ronald Hingley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367752492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367752491\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Ronald Hingley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943716258047,"sku":"9780367752491","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c86bfb35-f9b7-4ba6-8189-0affdf1314eb.jpg?v=1681499660","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-russian-secret-police-ronald-hingley-9780367752491","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}