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
Okhrana
surface form: Tsarist secret police
areaOfOperations Europe
Russian Empire
Russian émigré communities abroad
characterizedBy clandestine operations
extensive surveillance network
political repression
use of double agents
country Russian Empire
dissolutionCause Russian Revolution
surface form: February Revolution
dissolved 1917
headquartersLocation Moscow
Paris
St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint 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 Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire
surface form: 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 Georgy Gapon
surface form: Father 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 Okhrana self-linksurface differs
surface form: Moscow Okhrana

Okhrana self-linksurface differs
surface form: Paris Okhrana

Okhrana self-linksurface differs
surface form: Saint Petersburg 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 Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire
surface form: 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 self-link
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 Okhrana
this entity surface form: Russian Empire authorities
Narodnaya Volya repressedBy Okhrana
Okhrana shortName Okhrana self-link
Okhrana alsoKnownAs Okhrana
this entity surface form: Tsarist secret police
Okhrana notableOffice Okhrana self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Paris Okhrana
Okhrana notableOffice Okhrana self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Moscow Okhrana
Okhrana notableOffice Okhrana self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Saint Petersburg Okhrana
Petrashevsky Circle persecutedBy Okhrana
this entity surface form: Russian secret police
Saint Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies repressedBy Okhrana
this entity surface form: Imperial Russian police
VChK precededBy Okhrana
this entity surface form: Tsarist Okhrana