Black Hundreds

Black Hundreds
Black Hundreds; Чёрная Сотня
Political orientation	Absolute monarchism; Russian ultranationalism

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The Black Hundreds were a reactionary organization in Russia during the early 20th century that consisted of landlords, merchants, priests, and lumpenproletarians. With the support of the police, they murdered workers, intellectuals, and Jews during the 1905 revolution. The Fifth Congress of the RSDLP in 1907 adopted a policy of relentless struggle against the Black Hundreds.^[1]

Lenin encouraged the Bolsheviks to train by fighting against the Black Hundreds.^[2]

References

↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution'. [MIA]
↑ “The fight against the Black Hundreds is an excellent type of military action, which will train the soldiers of the revolutionary army, give them their baptism of fire, and at the same time be of tremendous benefit to the revolution. Revolutionary army groups must at once find out who organises the Black Hundreds and where and how they are organised, and then, without confining themselves to propaganda (which is useful, but inadequate) they must act with armed force, beat up and kill the members of the Black-Hundred gangs, blow up their headquarters, etc., etc.”

Vladimir Lenin (1905). Tasks of Revolutionary Army Contingents. [MIA]

[:0-1] Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Russo-Japanese War and the First Russian Revolution'. [MIA]

[2] “The fight against the Black Hundreds is an excellent type of military action, which will train the soldiers of the revolutionary army, give them their baptism of fire, and at the same time be of tremendous benefit to the revolution. Revolutionary army groups must at once find out who organises the Black Hundreds and where and how they are organised, and then, without confining themselves to propaganda (which is useful, but inadequate) they must act with armed force, beat up and kill the members of the Black-Hundred gangs, blow up their headquarters, etc., etc.”

Vladimir Lenin (1905). Tasks of Revolutionary Army Contingents. [MIA]

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