The Okhrana were the secret police of the Russian tsars, created following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. For over 30 years, they infiltrated, monitored, censored, and detained groups seen as destabilizing the nation or threatening the autocratic power of the Russian Empire.

Assessment. At its peak the KGB was the largest secret-police and foreign-intelligence organization in the world. Researchers with access to Communist Party archives put the number of KGB personnel at more than 480,000, including 200,000 soldiers in the Border Guards.

The KGB’s main successors are the FSB ( Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) and the SVR ( Foreign Intelligence Service) .

To deal with revolutionaries living in exile, Okhrana sections were also established in major European cities such as Paris and London. After the October Revolution an examination of police files suggested that around 26,000 people were killed without trial by the Okhrana.

‘the guard’) was a secret-police force of the Russian Empire and part of the police department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in the late 19th century, aided by the Special Corps of Gendarmes….Okhrana.

Okhrana. The Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order (Russian: Отделение по Охранению Общественной Безопасности и Порядка), usually called “guard department” (Russian: Охранное отделение) and commonly abbreviated in modern sources as Okhrana (Russian: Охрана, IPA: [ɐˈxranə] (listen), lit.

Bloody Sunday, Russian Krovavoye Voskresenye, (January 9 [January 22, New Style], 1905), massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

The first march took place on March 7, 1965, organized locally by Bevel, Amelia Boynton, and others. State troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line, and the event became known as Bloody Sunday.

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1. Russia entered World War I in August 1914, drawn into the conflict by the alliance system and its promises of support to Serbia, its Balkan ally. 2. War patriotism helped douse anti-government sentiment, which had been building steadily in months beforehand, peaking with a general strike in July 1914.

When the procession of workers led by Father Gapon reached the Winter Palace it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks. Over 100 workers were killed and about 300 wounded. The incident, known as Bloody Sunday.

April Theses, Russian Aprelskiye Tezisy, in Russian history, program developed by Lenin during the Russian Revolution of 1917, calling for Soviet control of state power; the theses, published in April 1917, contributed to the July Days uprising and also to the Bolshevik coup d’etat in October 1917.

So he put forward three demands, called as Lenin’s ‘April Theses’. (i) The war to be brought to an end and Russia should withdraw itself from the war. (ii) Land to be transferred to the peasants, thus feudalism to be banned. (iii) Banks be nationalised.

These demands were: End to the war, Transfer of Land to the peasants, Nationalisation of Banks.