Repression
The years of revolution were marked by a dramatic rise in the numbers of death sentences and executions. Different figures on the number of executions were compared by Senator Nikolai Tagantsev, and are listed in the table.
| Year | Number of executions by different accounts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report by Ministry of Internal Affairs Police Department to the State Duma on 19 February 1909. | Report by Ministry of War Military Justice department | Figures by Oscar Gruzenberg. | Report by Mikhail Borovitinov, assistant head of Ministry of Justice Chief Prison Administration, at the International Prison Congress in Washington, 1910. | |
| 1905 | 10 | 19 | 26 | 20 |
| 1906 | 144 | 236 | 225 | 144 |
| 1907 | 456 | 627 | 624 | 1139 |
| 1908 | 825 | 1330 | 1349 | 825 |
| Total | 1435 + 683 = 2118 | 2212 | 2235 | 2628 |
| Year | Number of executions |
|---|---|
| 1909 | 537 |
| 1910 | 129 |
| 1911 | 352 |
| 1912 | 123 |
| 1913 | 25 |
These numbers reflect only executions of civilians, and do not include a large number of summary executions by punitive army detachments and executions of military personnel that mutineed.
Peter Kropotkin also notes that official statistics did not include executions during punitive expeditions, especially in Siberia, the Caucasus, and the Baltic provinces.
By 1906 there were 4,509 political prisoners in Russian Poland, 20% of the empire's total.
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