Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917

Anna Geifman

Published by Princeton University Press 1993

Thou Shalt Kill

Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917

Anna Geifman

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221458

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About this book

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.

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Anna Geifman is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University.

Reviews

"[Geifman] argues effectively that those who practiced individual acts of violence against tsarist officials and the population in general had a much more destructive effect on the imperial regime than has generally been acknowledged in the historical literature."—James W. Hules, Terrorism and Political Violence

"This book makes gripping reading. . . . Geifman's detailed account makes it clear that in fact the wave of terrorism broke out more or less spontaneously, and amounted more to a universal breakdown of law and order than to a 'movement.'"---Edward Ross Dickinson, New England Slavonic Journal

"Professor Geifman . . . dissects with surgical precision the couple of decades that preceded the Bolshevik seizure of power, a time when a beleaguered tsarist regime groped desperately, and failed to find, some means of defending itself."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustration Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER ONE. Revolutionary Terrorism in the Empire: Background, Extent, and Impact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
CHAPTER TWO. The Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries and Terror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
CHAPTER THREE. The Social Democrats and Terror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
CHAPTER FOUR. Terrorists of a New Type: The Anarchists and the Obscure Extremist Groups Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
CHAPTER FIVE. The "Seamy Side" of the Revolution: The Criminal Element, the Psychologically Unbalanced, and Juveniles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
CHAPTER SIX. The United Front: Interparty Connections and Cooperation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Kadets and Terror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
CHAPTER EIGHT. The End of Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
EPILOGUE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367