The Assassination of Sergei Nichei

The assassination attempt could not have back fired harder. Rather than triggering a popular uprising, it triggered a reactionary back lash. Liberals were purged from the government. A harsh white terror descended against radicals who were not really given the benefit of the czar's new judicial system. Most of them had to run for it - which is the partial origin story of a whole new generation of russian revolutionaries in exile,. We will talk about next week.