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dc.contributor.authorAbbott, Robert J.
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-20T08:30:30Z
dc.date.available2022-07-20T08:30:30Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57553
dc.description.abstractFounded 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHistorical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasiaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.otherGreat Reforms; Emancipation; revolution; zemstvos; courtsen_US
dc.titlePolicemen of the Tsaren_US
dc.title.alternativeLocal Police in an Age of Upheavalen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7829/9789633865767en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy5427f84f-0815-48ff-aac8-56f6200fccaben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy32b67c16-7387-40c4-b2d0-66bb8374acccen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789633865750en_US
oapen.pages235en_US


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