Black Hundred : ‘League of the Russian People’, organization of anti-Semitic groups formed during the 1905 revolution with off-the-record approval of the Czar. Black Hundreds, primarily landlords, rich peasants, bureaucrats, police officials & clergymen, staged raids against revolutionary groups, & organized massacre of Jews.
... official actually leading the mob and the looting being carried on under the eyes of the police; these things were new, but the Salimullahi campaign itself, the use of the hooligans (our Indian Black Hundred), and the sympathy of the officials are elements which are old, of which the country had been warned and against which the leaders of the movement should have provided. Even the extent to which ...
... knows that the statement is untrue. The boycott was no doubt the final cause of the hooliganism in the East just as the Russian revolutionary movement was the final cause of the excesses of the Black Hundred, but it was in no way the immediate and efficient cause. It was the final cause in this sense that its first success compelled Sir Bampfylde Fuller to look about for a counteracting influence and ...
... repression except the taking of life. Deportation, condemnation without trial, punishment before conviction, flogging, the gagging of press and platform, police hooliganism, the employment of a Black Hundred, brutal personal persecution in jail and hajat , have all been attempted though not as yet on the Russian scale. When all these methods have been found ineffective, it is quite possible that the ...
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