Russia’s Record Year of Repression

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 3, 1909

Russia’s Record Year of Repression

Notwithstanding the liberal provisions which Russia has favored during the last few years, they seem to not yet have gone into effect. The record year for political prisoners was last year. 42,347 exiled to Siberia. The executions for December were the largest of any month in the year, numbering 327. The total for the year, 2,102 condemned to death. 17,347 compelled to penal servitude and Saghalien for life; and 26,000 to shorter sentences. This, of course, is stirring up the Duma, or Russian Parliament, and new revolutions may grow out of it.