Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Revolutionary Terrorism in the Empire: Background, Extent, and Impact11Ch. 2The Party of Socialists - Revolutionaries and Terror45Ch. 3The Social Democrats and Terror84Ch. 4Terrorists of a New Type: The Anarchists and the Obscure Extremist Groups123Ch. 5The "Seamy Side" of the Revolution: The Criminal Element, the Psychologically Unbalanced, and Juveniles154Ch. 6The United Front: Interparty Connections and Cooperation181Ch. 7The Kadets and Terror207Ch. 8The End of Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia223Epilogue249Notes257Bibliography357Index367

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[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"

About the Author

Anna Geifman is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University.

Reviews

"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."--Virginia Quarterly Review "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