Comments on: It is impossible to draw a line between revolutionary and criminal action

By: Magus

Magus — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 06:07:37 +0000

I’m curious what the religious/ethnic breakdown of terrorists in imperial Russia was. I have my suspicions but frankly don’t know.

By: Adar

Adar — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 16:36:20 +0000

American communist revolutionaries of the late 1960′s their attempted recruitment efforts included convicts of the worst possible sort of offender. Most upper-middle class youth had not even cracked the proverbial eggshell during their lives and never had committed a violent act ever. Convicts were admired for their lack of restraint in using violence as a means to achieve whatever ends.

By: Candide III

Candide III — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 14:44:27 +0000

*court-martials

By: Candide III

Candide III — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 14:43:26 +0000

It says a lot about the value of contemporary and modern screeching about the oppressive autocratic Tsarist regime that this situation continued for several decades with no effectual response from the Tsar and his government, until Stolypin, whose own house was bombed and his teenage daughter invalided, temporarily instituted field court-marshals for terrorist murders and condemned a few hundred. If memory serves, only a minority of these were actually executed, but this put a stop to the terror, and for this Stolypin was branded the worst offender against liberty that history has ever known. He was assassinated a few years later.