History A-Level
Okhrana
What Okhrana means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Okhrana
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The secret police on which the regime relied heavily to enforce autocratic rule and suppress dissent, infiltrating opposition groups, censoring publications and exiling dissidents to Siberia.
Topics that use Okhrana
- The rule of Nicholas II, 1894–1905 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Autocracy
- Bloody Sunday
- national minorities
- Nationality
- Radicalism vs Liberalism
- Russo-Japanese War
- St. Petersburg Soviet
- The limits of Tsarist recovery
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