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Brothers in Arms? The Beginnings of International Police Co-operation and the Russian Revolutionary Emigration

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Tsardom understood that an effective campaign against Russian revolutionaries abroad required the support of those countries in which the émigrés resided. The minister of foreign affairs believed that such co-operation would not be difficult to obtain as long as he and his fellow minister from internal affairs could somehow connect the Russian revolutionary emigration to the Anarchist terror that so coloured European politics in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, spreading panic wherever it appeared.

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Zuckerman, F.S. (2003). Brothers in Arms? The Beginnings of International Police Co-operation and the Russian Revolutionary Emigration. In: The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514935_3

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