Thou Shalt Kill : : Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917 / / Anna Geifman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Geifman, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.) :; 22 halftones

Anna Geifman examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place in the Russian empire from the years just prior to the turn of the century through 1917, a period when over 17,000 people were killed or wounded by revolutionary extremists. On the basis of new research, she argues that a multitude of assassination attempts, bombings, ideologically motivated robberies, and incidents of armed assault, kidnapping, extortion, and blackmail for party purposes played a primary role in the revolution of 1905 and early twentieth-century Russian political history in general.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustration -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. Revolutionary Terrorism in the Empire: Background, Extent, and Impact -- CHAPTER TWO. The Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries and Terror -- CHAPTER THREE. The Social Democrats and Terror -- CHAPTER FOUR. Terrorists of a New Type: The Anarchists and the Obscure Extremist Groups -- CHAPTER FIVE. The "Seamy Side" of the Revolution: The Criminal Element, the Psychologically Unbalanced, and Juveniles -- CHAPTER SIX. The United Front: Interparty Connections and Cooperation -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Kadets and Terror -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The End of Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX