In Popular Culture
- In Jack London's 1908 novel The Iron Heel, which predicts the rise of a nationalist government in the US, the hired thugs who are loyal to the regime and specialise in attacking labour meetings use the name of the Black Hundreds.
- In Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel The Fixer, which portrays Yakov Bok as a Jewish man from the pogrom moving to Kiev, Yakov changes his last name to sound more Russian and soon becomes employed by a member of the Black Hundred.
- In Edward Rutherford's 1991 novel Russka, a young Bobrov (one of the fictional families portrayed in the novel) is beaten in the street by a gang of young Black Hundreds for being Jewish-looking and being the son of a social-democrat.
- Irish Black Metal band Primordial included a song named "The Black Hundred" on their 2011 release Redemption at the Puritan's Hand.
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