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Boris Savinkov

Борис Савинков
Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) Non-Bolshevik socialists Soviet Union Russia 1879–1925 ✕ Executed/Suspicious death

Terrorist, Counter-Revolutionary: the Black Horse of the Revolution

At his 1924 trial: 'I am Savinkov, of the Plehve and Grand Duke Sergei assassinations. All my life I worked for the people, yet now I am charged with bearing arms against the workers' and peasants' power.'

Revolutionary and novelist who led the SR Combat Organization, directing assassinations of high-ranking tsarist officials. His The Pale Horse (1909) novelized the psychology of terrorism. After the October Revolution he led anti-Bolshevik armed struggle, was arrested in an OGPU trap, and died at Lubyanka.

Career timeline
  • 1903Joined SR Combat Organization
  • 1904Organized assassination of Interior Minister Plehve
  • 1905Directed assassination of Grand Duke Sergei
  • 1909Published The Pale Horse — a psychological anatomy of terrorism
  • 1917.04Returned to Russia, appointed Commissar of the 7th Army
  • 1917.07Assistant Minister of War — mediated between Kerensky and Kornilov
  • 1917.08Dismissed from all posts and expelled from SR party over Kornilov affair
  • 1918Founded Union for Defense of Motherland and Freedom, led anti-Bolshevik uprisings
  • 1920–1921Organized Russian units fighting alongside Poland against the Bolsheviks
  • 1924Lured back to USSR by OGPU's Operation Trust, arrested
  • 1925Died in Lubyanka prison (official: suicide by defenestration; suspected: OGPU murder)
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