Crime & Terrorism

Tony Rocchi06.09.2024

The generation of terrorists in the Russian Empire between 1901-1911 constitute a unique generation in the history of European and world terrorism. This generation created mass terrorism in today’s world. These terrorists also found a supporter in Leo Tolstoy, the world’s greatest writer. The government’s decision in August 1906 to use speedy courts martial against […]

Tony Rocchi24.08.2024

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Political terrorism in the Russian Empire lasted from 1866 to 1911. This period was equivalent to two generations. One can divide the history of Russian terrorists into the story of the Great Known Generation of the members of the People’s Will from 1879-1894 and the story of the Great Unknown Generation of terrorists from different […]

Tony Rocchi17.08.2024

There are different ways of dividing the history of terrorism in Russia between 1866 and 1911. In my last article, I suggested that one way to look at the history of political terrorism in the Russian Empire is to divide it into two main periods. The period of the Great Known runs from 1879-1894. It […]

Tony Rocchi13.08.2024

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One way to look at the history of political terrorism in the Russian Empire is to divide it into two main periods. The period of the Great Known runs from 1879-1894. It is the history of the People’s Will (Народная Воля) whose members assassinated Tsar Alexander II on March 1, 1881. The period of the […]

Tony Rocchi02.08.2024

The ambivalence of many conservatives and reactionaries in Russia about political terrorism possibly did more harm to the government than we can imagine. In the long run, conservative ambivalence contributed to the collapse of the autocracy in the February Revolution of 1917. It is undoubtable that most conservatives and reactionaries condemned left-wing terrorism, but many […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky29.07.2024

Reuters journalists conducted a classic journalistic investigation in an attempt to understand how online trade and the availability of chemical recipes on the Internet can contribute to the fentanyl drug epidemic in the United States. The journalists did it simply: they found a recipe for making fentanyl from precursors on the Internet. Then they found […]

Tony Rocchi19.07.2024

Support from liberals and moderate socialists and ambivalent attitudes by conservatives enabled the massiveness and continuity of left-wing terrorism in Russia between 1901-1911. In many respects, these tendencies already began in the first wave of political terrorism in Russia from 1878-1894. Just how much do we know about liberal support for terrorism and conservative ambivalence […]

Tony Rocchi11.07.2024

Terrorism in the Russian Empire between 1901-1911 was both a multiethnic and multireligious phenomenon. In no way can it be considered an ethnically Russian phenomenon. However, too many historians ignore the multiethnic and multireligious composition of terrorists in Russia, and this is one more reason why terrorism remains a Great Unknown. Part of the problem […]

Tony Rocchi22.06.2024

Of all the topics in the history of the Russian Empire, one of the most unknown topics is the history of political terrorism in the Russian Empire between 1866-1911. It seems that the history of terrorism in pre-1917 Russia is likely to stay a Great Unknown for a long time. I first encountered terrorism in […]

Yuri Chekalin07.04.2024

The case dates back to not-so-recent times, the 70s of the last century. In the Russian outback, in one of the small provincial town worked a city prosecutor with the talantes conman. The man is not yet old and, on the contrary, is still very promising in age. He did not shine with particular successes […]

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Crime & Terrorism

Leo Tolstoy and a Unique Generation of Terrorists

Two Generations of Terrorists in the Russian Empire

The Three Stages of Terrorism in the Russian Empire

One Great Known and One Great Unknown — Terrorism in Russia

Conservative Ambivalence about Terrorism in Russia: One More Aspect of the Terrorism Great Unknown

Making $3,000,000 in Drugs in the US is Easy

The Mass Criminalization of Educated Society: one aspect of the Great Unknown of Political Terrorism in Russia

Terrorism in the Russian Empire: A Multiethnic Great Unknown

The Great Unknown — Political Terrorism in the Russian Empire

The Most Incredible Bribes

September Troubles in Global Markets

Leo Tolstoy and a Unique Generation of Terrorists

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Lavrov’s Special Message