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A Statistical Approach to the Revolutionary Movement in Russia, 1878-1887

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Ivan Avakumovic
Ivan Avakumovic*
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba
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The years 1878-1887 form a definite period in the history of the revolutionary movement in Russia. It was a period when terrorism was the favorite weapon of the revolutionaries, though it also saw the first large-scale strikes in St. Petersburg and the emergence of the first Russian Marxist group.

In the vast literature on the revolutionary movement of that period, little use has been made of an important source, La Chronique du Mouvement Socialiste en Russie 1878-1887, of which a confidential limited edition of a hundred copies was published in French by the Ministry of the Interior in 1890 (St. Petersburg, 718 pp.).

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Research Article
Information
American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 1959 , pp. 182 - 186
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1959

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References

1 The Moscow publisher Sablin published a Russian translation in 1906. It lacks the register of names and pseudonyms adopted by revolutionaries, but contains some useful bibliographical notes.

2 There were 166 women among them.

3 The authorities hanged forty-eight terrorists and the revolutionaries killed thirty-eight persons in the years 1866-87.

4 There were seventy-eight revolutionaries in Paris at the end of 1880, and about twenty in Rumania.

5 The discrepancy between the number of émigrés traced by the Tsarist police in the years 1886-88 and the number of Emigres given in Table 8 is due to the fact that the police, when mentioning an émigré in the Chronique, did not always give the name of the country in which he was living at the time.