VIOLENCE IN POLITICS - TERROR AND POLITICAL ASSASSINATION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA

• NCJ Number: 32292
• Author(s): F GROSS
• Date Published: 1972
• Length: 149 pages
• Sale Source: Mouton and Co
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: Netherlands

Annotation

SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL TACTICAL TERROR, MASS TERROR, RANDOM TERROR, ELIMINATION OF COMPETITORS TO POWER, AND DYNASTIC ASSASSINATION.

Abstract

THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS, TEACHES THAT A CLEAR DISTINCTION MUST BE MADE BETWEEN STRUGGLE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST DOMESTIC AUTOCRACY, AGAINST FOREIGN CONQUERORS, AND AGAINST A REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS. VIOLENCE OF THIS TYPE WEAKENS DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, PAVES THE WAY TO POWER OF RUTHLESS POLITICAL MINORITIES, OR RESULTS IN STRONG REACTION OR REPRESSION AND LIMITATION OF POLITICAL RIGHTS. ALMOST A CENTURY-LONG EXPERIENCE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE, ESPECIALLY INDIVIDUAL VIOLENCE, SUGGEST A CLEAR DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED ISOLATED POLITICAL ASSASSINATION AND A TACTICAL OR INDIVIDUAL TERROR. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)