num_pages: 388
description: 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.
language: English
title: Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917
titlecomplete: Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917
genres: Terrorism, History, Russia
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Princeton University Press