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Okhranka

Russian police organization
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Also known as: Okhrana, Otdeleniye po Okhraneniyu Obshchestvennoy Bezopasnosti i Poryadka
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Acronym from Russian:
Otdeleniye po Okhraneniyu Obshchestvennoy Bezopasnosti i Poryadka
English:
Department for Defense of Public Security and Order
Date:
1881 - 1917
Areas Of Involvement:
left
revolutionary group

Okhranka, (1881–1917), prerevolutionary Russian secret-police organization that was founded to combat political terrorism and left-wing revolutionary activity. The group’s principal mode of operation was through infiltration of labour unions, political parties, and, in at least two cases, newspapers: police agents were editors of the Marxist journals Nachalo (1899, “The Beginning”) and, in 1912–13, of Pravda. The Okhranka was particularly active following the unsuccessful Russian Revolution of 1905. After the February 1917 Revolution the organization was abolished by the Provisional Government.

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