Thou Shalt Kill

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.