title: Secret Agents of the Russian Gendarmerie in the Fight against Espionage at the Beginning of the First World War
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metadata.value: Zverev, V. O.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Polovnikov, O. G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T12:17:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T12:17:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Zverev V. O., Polovnikov O. G. ‘Secret Agents of the Russian Gendarmerie in the Fight against Espionage at the Beginning of the First World War’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 4, 2020, pp. 892–901.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/24322
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metadata.value: The article discusses the limited intelligence capabilities of the gendarmerie departments of the Warsaw
  Governor General (Lomzinska, Warsaw, Kielce, Lublin, and Radom provinces) in the fight against German
  and Austrian spies in the second half of 1914 and the first half of 1915. One reason for the secret police’s lack of
  readiness is the reluctance of the gendarmerie-police authorities to organize counter-response work on an appropriate
  basis. The rare, fragmentary, and not always valuable information received by agents of the investigating
  authorities did not allow the gendarmes to organize full-scale and successful operational work on a subordinate
  territory to identify hidden enemies of the state. The low potential, and, in some cases, the complete uselessness
  of secret service personnel for the interests of the military wanted list led to the fact that most politically disloyal
  persons were accidentally identified by other special services. In most cases, spies were detected either due to
  information from army intelligence and counterintelligence agencies, or due to the vigilance of military personnel
  of the advanced units of the Russian army. The authors conclude that the gendarmerie departments were unable
  to organize a systematic operational escort of military personnel of the Russian armies deployed in the Warsaw
  Military District. Despite the fact that the duty of the gendarmerie police included not only criminal procedures,
  but also operational searches, there was no qualified identification of spies with the help of secret officers.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: financial reports
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gendarmerie departments
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: counterintelligence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: spies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Secret Agents of the Russian Gendarmerie in the Fight against Espionage at the Beginning of the First World War
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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