Forschungsdatenkollektion "Data on Surveillance & Repression in the Russian Empire, 1886-1912"

EN - This is the most detailed and updated dataset on autocracy and political development in the Russian Empire. The first part of the dataset covers the internal intelligence of the Russian Secret Police (Okhrana) under Alexander III. and Nicholas II., the two last Tsars of the Russian Empire (1886-1901). It includes extensive lists of individuals under investigation as well as revolutionaries accused for crimes against the state. Their socio-economic and cultural characteristics as well as the geographic location of their investigation/arrest also constitute an inherent part of the reported information, which was collected by Theocharis Grigoriadis in the Russian and Soviet Library and Archives of the Hoover Institution (Stanford, California). Furthermore, the second part of the dataset includes rights deprivation data from the archival files of the Imperial Russian Ministry of Justice (1894-1912). It was collected by Theocharis Grigoriadis in the Russian State Historical Archive (Saint Petersburg, Russia). It includes lists of individuals who were convicted for serious criminal offenses (distinguished crimes) and were deprived of their basic rights. In most cases, their rights deprivation included imprisonment or lifetime exile. The occupational status of the convicted and the geographic location of the court issuing each deprivation are also available.