Policemen of the Tsar
Founded by Peter the Great in 1718, Russia’s police were key instruments of tsarist power. In the reign of Alexander II (1855-1881), local police forces took on new importance. The liberation of 23 million serfs from landlord control, growing fear of crime, and the terrorist violence of the closing...
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Central European University Press
2022
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| author | Abbott, Robert J. |
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| description | Founded by Peter the Great in 1718, Russia’s police were key instruments of tsarist power. In the reign of Alexander II (1855-1881), local police forces took on new importance. The liberation of 23 million serfs from landlord control, growing fear of crime, and the terrorist violence of the closing years challenged law enforcement with new tasks that made worse what was already a staggering burden.
This book describes the regime’s decades-long struggle to reform and strengthen the police. The author reviews the local police’s role and performance in the mid-nineteenth century and the implications of the largely unsuccessful effort to transform them. From a longer-term perspective, the study considers how the police’s systemic weaknesses undermined tsarist rule, impeded a range of liberalizing reforms, perpetuated reliance on the military to maintain law and order, and gave rise to vigilante justice.
While its primary focus is on European Russia, the analysis also covers much of the imperial periphery, discussing the police systems in the Baltic Provinces, Congress Poland, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-906482025-07-29T19:56:51Z Policemen of the Tsar Abbott, Robert J. Great Reforms; Emancipation; revolution; zemstvos; courts thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history Founded by Peter the Great in 1718, Russia’s police were key instruments of tsarist power. In the reign of Alexander II (1855-1881), local police forces took on new importance. The liberation of 23 million serfs from landlord control, growing fear of crime, and the terrorist violence of the closing years challenged law enforcement with new tasks that made worse what was already a staggering burden. This book describes the regime’s decades-long struggle to reform and strengthen the police. The author reviews the local police’s role and performance in the mid-nineteenth century and the implications of the largely unsuccessful effort to transform them. From a longer-term perspective, the study considers how the police’s systemic weaknesses undermined tsarist rule, impeded a range of liberalizing reforms, perpetuated reliance on the military to maintain law and order, and gave rise to vigilante justice. While its primary focus is on European Russia, the analysis also covers much of the imperial periphery, discussing the police systems in the Baltic Provinces, Congress Poland, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia. 2022-08-03T05:41:23Z 2022-08-03T05:41:23Z 2022-07-20T08:30:30Z 2022 book OCN: 1323328215 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57553 9789633865750 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90648 eng Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57553/1/9789633865767.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57553/1/9789633865767.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57553/1/9789633865767.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57553/1/9789633865767.pdf Central European University Press 10.7829/9789633865767 10.7829/9789633865767 49dd7c40-8e8d-4f66-b9e6-2895b535a0e0 CEU Press - Opening the future 32b67c16-7387-40c4-b2d0-66bb8374accc 9789633865750 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 235 open access |
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