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PublisherNew York University Press

ISBN-100814796737

ISBN-139780814796733

eBay Product ID (ePID)444392

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Number of Pages400 Pages

Publication NameTsarist Secret Police and Russian Society, 1880-1917

LanguageEnglish

SubjectRussia & the Former Soviet Union, Law Enforcement

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

AuthorFredric S. Zuckerman

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight21 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-016138

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"In this major collection of essays, Lewontin and Levins range from the Human Genome Project and evolutionary psychology to Cuban agriculture. Throughout, their work is illuminated by an insistence on a dialectical understanding of biology from the molecular to the socio-ecological. In rejecting reductionist understandings, they offer important insights into how biologyand science in generalcould be reconceptualized in the service of human liberation." - Steven Rose, emeritus professor of biology, Open University, United Kingdom, -, "In this major collection of essays, Lewontin and Levins range from the Human Genome Project and evolutionary psychology to Cuban agriculture. Throughout, their work is illuminated by an insistence on a dialectical understanding of biology from the molecular to the socio-ecological. In rejecting reductionist understandings, they offer important insights into how biology--and science in general--could be reconceptualized in the service of human liberation." -Steven Rose, emeritus professor of biology, Open University, United Kingdom

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal363.2/83/0947

SynopsisAlexander II's Great Reforms of the early 1860s unleashed hopes among Russians for a true civil society resulting in increased political freedom. An attempt on the Tsar's life in 1866 put an abrupt end to these hopes, trapping Russian political life within a vicious circle of political reaction, growing disillusionment with government, and intensifying political dissent which increasingly manifested itself in acts of terrorism against Tsarist officials. Fredric S. Zuckerman traces this political upheaval to the creation of the Department of State Police in 1880. This organization, created to combat all forms of political subversion, served as a declaration of war by Tsardom not only against Russia's terrorists, but against enlightened society as a whole. The secret police served as the vanguard of order and state force in this internal war, its tentacles penetrating every corner of Russian life. The first book to place the entire history of the so-called Okhrana within the context of Late Imperial Russia, The Tsarist Secret Police and Russian Society brings the organization to life, revealing the activities of its detectives, secret agents, and police chiefs, as well as its relations with the Russian people. The secret police, as Zuckerman makes clear, were themselves ultimately victims of the political culture they strove to preserve., Alexander II's Great Reforms of the early 1860s unleashed hopes among Russians for a true civil society resulting in increased political freedom. An attempt on the Tsar's life in 1866 put an abrupt end to these hopes, trapping Russian political life within a vicious circle of political reaction, growing disillusionment with government, and ......

LC Classification NumberHV8225.7.O54Z83 1996