Policemen of the Tsar : : Local Police in an Age of Upheaval.

• Superior document: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Series
• Author: Abbott, Robert J.
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest : : Central European University Press,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)

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.