Perspective Chapter: Historical Experience of Governments of Pre-Revolutionary Russia to Overcome Individual Political Terror

Abstract

Terrorism has become a prominent feature of the social and political life of Russia in the second half of the nineteenth early twentieth centuries. Its most dangerous form was political terrorism, with the help of which the opposition, extremist forces sought to bring confusion to the government camp, revolutionize their supporters in order to seize state power or achieve serious political concessions from the government. This was manifested to the greatest extent in the 1970s and 1980s of the nineteenth century in the activities of the Narodnaya Volya and at the beginning of the twentieth century in the activities of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and anarchists. As the danger grew, the government was forced to look for ways to contain and suppress this dangerous type of state crime: it sought to strengthen and develop law enforcement agencies, direct public efforts to isolate and curb it.