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.