What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression

Table Of Contents

foreword by Anthony Arnove
introduction to the 2005 edition by Dalia Hashad
chronology
author’s preface to the 1925 French edition

1. The Russian Okhrana
A special kind of policeman
External surveillance—being followed
The secrets of provocation
Directive on the recruitment and operation of agents provocateurs
A monograph of provocation in Moscow (1912)
Files on agents provocateurs
A ghost from the past
The case of Malinovsky
The mentality of the provocateur
Provocation—a two-edged sword
Russian informers abroad
Mail-opening and the international police
Decoding
Summarizing reports
Forensic evidence
An analysis of the revolutionary movement
Protection of the czar’s person
The cost of an execution
Conclusion: Why the Russian Revolution was still invincible

2. The problem of illegality
Don’t be fooled
The postwar experience
The limits of legal revolutionary action
Private police forces
Conclusions

3. Simple advice to revolutionaries
Simple advice to revolutionaries
Being followed
Correspondence and notes
General conduct
Among comrades
In the event of arrest
Before judges and police
Ingenuity
A supreme warning

4. The problem of revolutionary repression
Machine gun, typewriter, or . . . ?
The experience of two revolutions
Terror has gone on for centuries
From Gallifet to Mussolini
Bourgeois law and proletarian law
Two systems
Economic constraints: Hunger
Decimation, mistakes and abuses
Repression and provocation
When is repression effective?
Consciousness of the dangers and the goal

notes