Workers’ Conspiracy. Establishment – Activity – Liquidation. Episode of the History of the 1905 Revolution Cover Image

Zmowa Robotnicza – powstanie, działalność i likwidacja. Epizod z dziejów rewolucji 1905 r.
Workers’ Conspiracy. Establishment – Activity – Liquidation. Episode of the History of the 1905 Revolution

Author(s): Jacek Legieć
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, Political behavior, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Congress Kingdom of Poland; 1905 Revolution; Warsaw; political terrorism; anarchism;

Summary/Abstract: The article characterises the functioning of the Workers’ Conspiracy armed group, which operated in revolution-ridden Warsaw in 1906. It is sometimes referred to as an anarchist group or a simple robbery gang. The fate of the Workers’ Conspiracy also provided a basis for considering the specifi cs of the activities of political militant organisations in revolutionary conditions, political terrorism, and the boundary between political armed struggle and common banditry.

  • Issue Year: 55/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-30
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish