The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations

xiii, 313 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; From the Oprichnina to the Decembrists (1565-1825); The Third Section under Nicholas I (1826-1855); The Third Section under Alexander II (1855-1880); The Nineteenth-Century Okrana (1880-1900); The Okhrana in the Age of Assassinations (1901-1908); The Decline and Fall of the Okhrana (1908-1917); The Cheka (1917-1922); The GPU/OGPU (1922-1934); The NKVD under Yagoda and Yezhov (1934-1938); Beria and the NKVD/NKGB (1938-1945); Beria and the MVD/MGB (1945-1953); The KGB under Khrushchev (1954-1964); The KGB after Krushchev (1964-1970); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.