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Rh the first year of the constitution, from October 1905 to October 1906, 22,721 persons suffered physical injury in pogroms and other civil disorders.

In August 1908 Stolypin the premier informed Stead the English journalist that the number of executions averaged fifteen per month. Kropotkin promptly contested this statement in the Times, and subsequently in The Terror in Russia (1909) he published a critical compilation of the facts concerning the methods recently employed by the government and the police. I extract the following data:

These data refer only to civilians.

The government alleged in excuse that in consequence of the revolution there had been a great increase in murders and in crimes against property. On June 3, 1909, th following data referring to murder and attempted murder were laid before the duma by the government.