Modern World
Civilization
Handout Eight
Topic:
When Devils Walked
the Earth
OUTLINE:
VIII. When Devils Walked the Earth:
Nineteenth-Century Terrorism.
A. Introduction.
B. The Irish Troubles.
C. The Situation in Russia.
D. The Kansas Connection.
E. Counter-Terrorism in the
Nineteenth Century.
QUESTIONS:
- What factors best explain the rise
of Irish terrorism during the nineteenth century? Why did the Irish respond in
this manner? What were the historical factors that accounted for Irish
dissatisfaction?
- What were the objectives of the
Fenians? How did they operate? What did they develop into? What sort of
actions did they follow? Explain.
- What was the People’s Will? What
did Russian youth want? What were they willing to do in order to bring change
to Russia? But at what price? Explain.
- How did both the British and
Russians respond to political terrorism?
- Was John Brown a terrorist? If so,
why?
- How did the Social Revolutionaries
operate as terrorists? What did they learn from the experience of the People’s
Will?
- What techniques did the Okhrana use
to combat the SRs? How effective were those methods?
- Did the SRs stop when the Tsar was
toppled? Did they prose a threat to the Bolsheviks too?
TERMS:
Charlotte Corday
United Irishmen Wolfe Tone
Fenian
Movement Irish Republican Brotherhood Phoenix Park Murders
Clarkenwell Prison Incident
Invincibles People’s Will
Land and
Liberty D. V. Karakozov Nihilists
Mikhail Bakunin
Alexander Soloviev John Brown
Secret
Six Okhrana
Evno Azef
Fanya
Kaplan Cheka