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Violence and Terror in Russian Revolutionary Populism: the Narodnaya Volya, 1879–83

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Social Protest, Violence and Terror in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Europe

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‘The nihilists’, it was said in a contemporary memorandum on terror prepared for the heir to the throne, the future Alexander III, had achieved what ‘a Bismarck or a Beaconsfield’ had not been able to do: to drive the Russian state to the brink of dissolution.2

The entire nexus of Russian revolutionary ideologies and movements during the nineteenth century, in terms of their specific political aims and implications, particularly the controversies about a possible revolutionary dictatorship, has been the subject of my book, Die Ursprünge des Bolschewismus. Die jakobinische Tradition in Rußland und die Theorie der revolutionären Diktatur (Munich, 1977).

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  1. University of Düsseldorf, Germany

    Wolfgang J. Mommsen (Professor of History, Director) (Professor of History, Director)

  2. German Historical Institute, London, UK

    Wolfgang J. Mommsen (Professor of History, Director) & Gerhard Hirschfeld (Fellow) (Professor of History, Director) &  (Fellow)

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von Borcke, A. (1982). Violence and Terror in Russian Revolutionary Populism: the Narodnaya Volya, 1879–83. In: Mommsen, W.J., Hirschfeld, G. (eds) Social Protest, Violence and Terror in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16941-2_5

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