Frithjof Benjamin Schenk : Attacking the EmpireÕs Achilles Heels. Railroads and Terrorism in Tsarist Russia
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.
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