Jamie Bryson
Jamie Bryson
Department: History
Discipline: History
Project Summary
My research examines Russian state security during the First World War. I look at the shift from a pre-war contest between small groups of organised revolutionary terrorists, to wartime challenges such as mass unrest, food supply crisis, changing political opposition, military munity, 'spy mania' and loss of dynastic prestige. I consider surveillance reports to think about how well the tsarist state understood these challenges.
I gave a paper at the 2023 BASEES Study Group on the Russian Revolution called 'Portents of Revolution? The Okhrana in 1916'.
Supervisory Team
Prof. Matt Rendle; Dr. Claire McCallum
Wider Research Interests
Russia from its origins to the present day, war, revolution, empire, foreign relations and politics.
