The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political Security Operations

by Ronald Hingley

313 Pages

313 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Dr. Ronald Francis Hingley (1920-2010) was a scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.

Hingley was editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980. He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak. He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov . He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward.

He was a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1961 to 1987 and an Emeritus Fellow from 1987 onwards.

His son is the musician Tom Hingley.

Reviews

[A.J Jennings · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty standard non-fiction book. There was a lot of new information though a bit dry sometimes. It taught me all the things I needed about the Russian Secret police so I consider this a good read.