Policing the Russian Emigration in Paris, 1880-1914: The Twentieth Century as the Century of Political Police.

The article discusses the policing of Russian emigration in Paris, France from 1880 to 1914, featuring excerpts from the author's book "The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World." It highlights co-operation between the political police of Tsarist Russia and Republican France. The author comments on the case of Lev Nikolaevich Gartman, a Russian terrorist who fled to Paris in 1880. He also explores counterterrorism efforts and comments on the efforts of the police of the Paris Prefecture, French Directeur-Général des Recherches A.C. Puibaraud, and Russian Chief of the Foreign Agentura Peter Ivanovich Rachkovskii.