Okhrana

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The Okhrana was the secret police force of the late Russian Empire, notorious for surveilling, infiltrating, and suppressing revolutionary and opposition movements.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf government agency
secret police organization
alsoKnownAs Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order
Tsarist secret police
linked to: Okhrana
areaOfOperations Europe
Russian Empire
Russian émigré communities abroad
characterizedBy clandestine operations
extensive surveillance network
political repression
use of double agents
country Russian Empire
dissolutionCause February Revolution
linked to: Russian Revolution
dissolved 1917
headquartersLocation Moscow
Paris
Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
historicalPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
ideologicalOpponents anarchist organizations in the Russian Empire
liberal opposition groups in the Russian Empire
revolutionary movements in the Russian Empire
socialist organizations in the Russian Empire
inception 1881
jurisdiction Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Empire
legacy model for later secret police organizations in Russia
precursor to the Cheka
loyalty Tsar of Russia
autocracy in the Russian Empire
nativeName Охранное отделение
notableAgent Father Georgy Gapon
linked to: Georgy Gapon

Roman Malinovsky
Yevno Azef
notableDirector Alexei Lopukhin
Pyotr Rachkovsky
Sergei Zubatov
Stepan Beletsky
notableEvent role in repression preceding the 1905 Russian Revolution
role in suppression of 1905–1907 revolutionary activities
notableOffice Moscow Okhrana
linked to: Okhrana

Paris Okhrana
linked to: Okhrana

Saint Petersburg Okhrana
linked to: Okhrana
notableOperation infiltration of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
infiltration of the Socialist Revolutionary Party
monitoring of Lenin and Bolshevik émigrés
operatedIn Russian Empire
parentOrganization Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Empire
politicalAlignment monarchist
primaryFunction infiltration of revolutionary groups
political policing
suppression of dissent
surveillance of opposition
shortName Okhrana
usedMethod arbitrary arrest
censorship
infiltration
interrogation
mail interception
provocation
surveillance
surveillance of émigré communities
use of informants

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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) bannedBy Russian Empire authorities
linked to: Okhrana
Narodnaya Volya repressedBy Okhrana
Okhrana shortName Okhrana
Okhrana alsoKnownAs Tsarist secret police
linked to: Okhrana
Okhrana notableOffice Paris Okhrana
linked to: Okhrana
Okhrana notableOffice Moscow Okhrana
linked to: Okhrana
Okhrana notableOffice Saint Petersburg Okhrana
linked to: Okhrana
Petrashevsky Circle persecutedBy Russian secret police
linked to: Okhrana
Saint Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies repressedBy Imperial Russian police
linked to: Okhrana
VChK precededBy Tsarist Okhrana
linked to: Okhrana