Policemen of the Tsar : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Budapest :
Central European University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Front matter
- Half-title
- Series title page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures and Maps
- Preface
- Glossary of Russian Police Terms
- Chapter 1: The Local Police at Mid-Century
- Critical Mission, Weak Force
- Organization, Numbers, and Qualifications
- Particular Performance Problems
- Obstacles to Reform and Improving Prospects
- Chapter 2: The Rural Police
- Differing and Complementary Approaches
- Rising and Receding Reform
- Chapter 3: Metropolitan and Municipal Police
- More Police versus More Reform
- Expansion in St. Petersburg
- Karakozov and Trepov
- The Neglected City Police
- Chapter 4: From Stalemate to Forced Resolution
- The Polish Police Model
- The Commission on Provincial and County Institutions Reassembled
- On a Treadmill of Proposals
- Police Expansion at Gunpoint
- Chapter 5: A Police Balance Sheet
- New Units, New Weapons
- Numbers, Qualifications, and Workload
- International Comparisons
- Performance against Crime
- Performance of Non-Crime Duties
- Summing Up
- Chapter 6: Consequences and Implications
- Ministerial Gains, Loss of Local Control
- Rural Lawlessness and the Lack of Non-Military Force
- Damage to Center, Zemstvos, and Courts
- Impeding Liberalizing Reforms
- Implications for the Tsarist System
- Appendix: Police in the Borderlands
- The Baltic Provinces
- The Caucasus
- Central Asia
- Congress Poland
- Siberia
- Impact and Implications
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover.