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SR Combat Organization

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Template:Short description Template:Expand Russian Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox militant organization The Combat Organization (Template:Langx, or the Fighting Organization) was the terrorist branch within the Socialist Revolutionary Party of Russia. It was a terror sub-group that was given autonomy under that Party. In his memoirs, group member Boris Savinkov called the group the "Terrorist Brigade."<ref> 

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HistoryEdit

In 1902, Grigory Gershuni founded and led the group. In July 1904 they murdered the Russian Minister of the Interior, Vyacheslav von Plehve.

In 1904, Gershuni was arrested, and Yevno Azef succeeded him, with Boris Savinkov as his deputy. Azef, a double-agent in the employ of the Tsarist secret police Okhrana, changed the Terrorist Brigade's mode of attack from firearms to dynamite. In its middle period (1903–1906) the brigade's members included more than a dozen women and more than four dozen men—some nobles, honorary citizens, priests, and merchants. Most were 20–30 years old; 19 were Jews, and two Poles.<ref> Template:Cite book</ref> In 1908, Savinkov succeeded Azef, but the group disbanded shortly thereafter.

MembersEdit

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