Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Revolutionary Terrorism in the Empire -- Chapter Two: The Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries and Terror -- Chapter Three: The Social Democrats and Terror -- Chapter Four: Terrorists of a New Type -- Chapter Five: The ""Seamy Side"" of the Revolution -- Chapter Six: The United Front -- Chapter Seven: The Kadets and Terror -- Chapter Eight: The End of Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography
Summary
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
