Shulim Rosenzweig`s Incident: New Sources on Russian Gendarmerie Fighting Counterfeiters in Siberia, 1909–1911
| 31 October 2024
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Baksht D.A., Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Petin D.I., Omsk, Russian Federation
Shulim Rosenzweig`s Incident: New Sources on Russian Gendarmerie Fighting Counterfeiters in Siberia, 1909–1911
Abstract
The article describes the work of political police of the Russian Empire with secret informants in a Siberian province. The designated aspect closely echoes two following controversial issues: gendarmerie officers using provocative acts in operational work and corruption within the regional gendarmerie. The case of the provocateur Shulim Rosenzweig proves this point. It reveals problems not only with intelligence work, but with gendarmerie personnel as well, and also with interdepartmental interaction in the pre–revolutionary Ministry of Internal Affairs. The author connects the issue with existing historiography. The article draws on previously unpublished historical sources, such as departmental documentation of territorial bodies of the Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs permanently stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the State Archive of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Legislation and periodicals serve as additional sources. The publication may be of interest to researchers of domestic intelligence services, of political prisoners history, history of law and fighting counterfeiting in pre–revolutionary Russia.
Keywords
Sources, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gendarmerie, agents, political exile, counterfeiting, Krasnoyarsk, Achinsk.
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About the authors
Baksht Dmitrii Alekseevich, senior lecturer of museology and cultural heritage department of the V.P. Astafiev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University; master student at the Law Institute of the Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, +7 913–595 22 74, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Petin Dmitrii Igorevich, PhD in History, associate professor of the national history department of the Omsk State Technical University; chief archivist of the Centre for Studying the History of the Civil War of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region, Omsk, Russian Federation, +7-381-237-05-58, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it