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Attacking the Empire's Achilles heels : railroads and terrorism in Tsarist Russia
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 424883
Author(s) Schenk, Frithjof Benjamin
Author(s) at UniBasel Schenk, Frithjof Benjamin
Year 2010
Title Attacking the Empire's Achilles heels : railroads and terrorism in Tsarist Russia
Journal Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
Volume 58
Number 2
Pages / Article-Number 232-253
Abstract This article analyzes the development of terrorist strategies that focused on sites of modern infrastructure both in Imperial Russia and in other countries at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. It argues that the construction of railroads not only enabled a significant increase of geographical mobility and economic development in the 19th and 20th centuries, thereby contributing to the integration of national and trans-national spaces. This new means of transportation must also be regarded as one of the prerequisites for the development and spread of modern terrorism. The article reveals that the history of railway terrorism, which has not come to an end today, has its historical roots in the 1860s and 1870s in Imperial Russia.
Publisher Franz Steiner
ISSN/ISBN 0021-4019
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/dok/A5840855
Full Text on edoc Available
ISI-Number WOS:000280617800005
Document type (ISI) Article
 
   

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