INTRODUCTION: The Dream of a Beautiful Autocracy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. Illustrations x
5. INTRODUCTION: The Dream of a Beautiful Autocracy 1
6. 1. Political Police in Russia: A General Background 22
7. 2. “Friends of the Fourteenth” 49
8. 3. Manners and Morals in the Third Section 84
9. 4. Censorship to 1848 133
10. 5. Empire and Cabbage Soup 197
11. 6. 1848, and After 229
12. 7. The Third Section In Retrospect 283
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY. NOTES. INDEX
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 297
15. NOTES 315
16. INDEX 345
17. Backmatter 361