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Genre/Form: | Biography History Biographies |
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Named Person: | V F Dzhunkovskiĭ; V F Dzhunkovskiĭ; Vladimir Fedorovič Džunkovskij |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard G Robbins |
ISBN: | 9780822945161 0822945169 9780822966173 0822966174 |
OCLC Number: | 989028366 |
Description: | xviii, 564 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Prologue : Butovo, 1938 -- Part one. From page to public man, 1865-1904. Youth and the Corps of Pages -- Guardsman and courtier -- Love, labor, loss -- Green snake, red flag -- Part two. Alarms & civil strife, 1905. Storm signals -- Moscow explodes -- Part three. Master of the province, 1906-1912. Learning the ropes -- A governor con brio -- Provincial politics -- National pageantry -- Part four. Security chief, 1913-1915. Celebration and reform -- A gendarme manqué? -- Mission to Baku -- In war at home -- Riot, Rasputin, ruin -- Part five. Dzhunkovsky's war, 1915-1918. Finding peace in war -- In dubious battles : Naroch Lake and after -- Red flags at the front -- The end of a world -- Part six. In the shadows, 1918-1938. Pensioner, prisoner, witness for the prosecution -- Before the bar of Soviet justice -- That the descendants of the Orthodox might know -- Overtaken by the night -- Conclusion. |
Series Title: | Series in Russian and East European studies. |
Responsibility: | Richard G. Robbins Jr. |
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Robbins tells a remarkable story and does so with great intelligence, insight, verve, and feeling. It will be of interest to specialists in Russian history but also comparative political history. General readers will like its fluency and drama."" - Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois at Chicago""Richard G. Robbins follows clearly the long and complex life of Vladimir Dzhunkovskii, who held many positions in tsarist Russia, including supervisor of the political police. The book will be required reading for anyone interested in 19th century policing and in dealing with radical movements. Robbins displays a literary flair and smoothly incorporates information from the Russian archives and Dzunkovskii's memoirs."" - Charles A. Ruud, Western University Read more...

