The work of the secret police. Special operations, recruitment methods, tactics of struggle, conducting operational-search work of the tsarist secret police
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The work of the secret police. Special operations, recruitment methods, tactics of struggle, conducting operational-search work of the tsarist secret police
9.99 €
Pavel Pavlovich Zavarzin was a Russian gendarme officer, Major-General of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes. The book by a member of the secret police tells about the affairs of the tsarist security service, contains details of the work of professional revolutionaries. Described techniques for the introduction of agents in the criminal environment and external surveillance. We learn that the secret police is a counter-revolutionary and counter-terrorist organization and was not just engaged in catching ordinary criminals. Its task was to identify spies and enemies of the regime, which was the goal of the embedded agents and to check correspondence in order to preserve statehood in Russia. The narrative is rich and vivid, told about both successful and failed operations, methods of recruitment, tactics, tactics of the fight, operational and investigative work.
Zavarzin had a tremendous search experience, climbed the career ladder from adjutant to the head of the department, but after the February Revolution of 1917, all gendarmerie departments by the decision of the Provisional Government were urgently liquidated, archives were burned, and the leadership arrested. The author did not escape this fate. After the liberation, he emigrated to France, where he wrote his memoirs about his work in the special service. The information in the book is authentic and very interesting for researchers of the confrontation between the national security service and extremist organizations.
Zavarzin had a tremendous search experience, climbed the career ladder from adjutant to the head of the department, but after the February Revolution of 1917, all gendarmerie departments by the decision of the Provisional Government were urgently liquidated, archives were burned, and the leadership arrested. The author did not escape this fate. After the liberation, he emigrated to France, where he wrote his memoirs about his work in the special service. The information in the book is authentic and very interesting for researchers of the confrontation between the national security service and extremist organizations.
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