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The Romanovs' Secret Police and the Trap of Zubatovshchina
In this episode, we explore the controversial strategy known as Zubatovshchina, pioneered by Peter Arkadievich Zubatov in early 20th-century St. Petersburg. Unlike the brutal repression of the Okhrana under Alexander III, Zubatov attempted to infiltrate and steer the labor movement from within, creating state-sanctioned mutual aid societies to divert workers toward loyalty to the Tsar rather than revolutionary socialism. We examine how this policy backfired spectacularly during the 1903-1904 period, when arrested union leaders used their trials to radicalize the very masses they were meant to…
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