Khoptyar A. The Socialist Revolutionary Party's activity in the Right-bank Ukraine in 1896-1907.

The thesis deals with the complex analysis of The Socialist Revolutionary Party's activity in the Right-bank Ukraine in 1896-1907. The investigation, based on the research of archival materials, displays the features of forms and methods of activity of the SRs, gives description and complex analysis of the formation and operation of military groups of The Socialist Revolutionary Party and their leaders. The role of this terrorist organization in the revolutionary events in the Right-bank Ukraine in the first half of 1905 is deeply analyzed. The thesis focuses on the problem of propaganda campaign in the Right-bank Ukraine province. The revolutionary political forces have launched a massive agitation for radical revolutionary change, in particular, the overthrow of the autocracy, the Constituent Assembly etc. A distinctive feature of party tactics in its early period (until about 1907) was its heavy reliance upon assassinations of individual government officials. These tactics were intended to embolden the "masses" and to intimidate ("terrorize") the Tsarist government into political concessions.