The Black-Hundred organizationsof the Russian empire: History and the present

Abstract

The publication is devoted to the problem which is acute for modern Russia. At the beginning of the XXth century the contention among the society and the power, the political parties and the unions accepted confrontational character. The authors state the problems of the activity of the extremely right political forces, which received the generalized name “The Black-Hundred” (“chernaya sotnya”). The article gives characteristics of the political life of monarchists-the Black-Hundred at the beginning of the previous century. The authors’ material, their conclusions and generalizations can be used for the further development of the history of political parties and movements.