List of Tables - Acknowledgements - A Note on Transliteration and Dates - A Note on Police Terminology - Abbreviations and Glossary - PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE - A Comparative Introduction - Law and the Repression of Political Crime in Russia, 1826-1902 - The Development of Modern Political Policing Institutions in Russia, 1800-1902 - PART 2: DETECTIVES, SECRET AGENTS AND POLICE CHIEFS - Fontanka's Foot Soldiers: The Professional Lives of Russia's Political Police Detectives - Sekretnye Sotrudniki: The Lives of Russia's Undercover Agents - Making A Career: The Evolution of Professionalism within Fontanka - PART 3: THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MODERN POLICE STATE? THE POLITICAL POLICE AND THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, 1902-1904 - Spinning the Web: Plehve and the Expansion of the Political Police Network - Time of Experiment, Time of Repression, 1902-1904 - PART 4: REVOLUTION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND COLLAPSE: THE TSARIST POLITICAL POLICE AND RUSSIAN SOCIETY, 1904-1917 - P.D. Sviatopolk-Mirskii and A.A. Lopukhin: The Political Police and Mirskii's 'Spring' - The Political Police and the 1905 Revolution, Part I: The Descent into Chaos, January to November - The Political Police and the 1905 Revolution, Part II: Durnovo, Rachkovshii and Internal Warfare - Stolypin and the Russian Political Police, 1906-1911 - S.P. Beletskii and V.F. Dzhunkovskii and the Forces of Modernity within Russian Society - Illusion and Reality: Into the Abyss 1915-1917 - Epilogue - Bibliography - Index