The article examines arrest protocols drawn up from the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s by local policemen investigating thousands of individuals denounced to the authorities for having voiced criticisms of the monarchy and approval of the campaign of terror in the reign of Alexander II. The discussion proceeds in two stages. It first argues that the arrest protocols constitute grounds for a revisionist challenge to the existing historiography which charts enduring, if gradually declining, popular support for the monarchy in the final decades of tsarism. It then argues for a reappraisal of the efforts by revolutionaries in the reign of Alexander II to destroy the sanctity of the autocracy through the use of “propaganda by the deed.” The campaign to assassinate the tsar emerges in the arrest protocols as an effective form of political messaging that gained real purchase in the popular imagination. It prompted lower-class Russians to articulate their own local grievances in terms of popular sovereignty, natural justice and political accountability.

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“给一条狗，一条狗的死！”：1878-1884 年俄罗斯帝国的幼稚君主主义和弑君

这篇文章审查了从 1870 年代中期到 1880 年代中期由地方警察起草的逮捕协议，他们调查了数千名被当局谴责的人，这些人曾对亚历山大二世统治时期的君主制提出批评并批准恐怖运动。讨论分两个阶段进行。它首先争辩说，逮捕协议构成了对现有史学的修正主义挑战的理由，该史学描绘了在沙皇统治的最后几十年中，民众对君主制的持久支持（如果逐渐下降）。然后，它主张重新评估亚历山大二世统治时期革命者通过使用“以行动进行宣传”来破坏专制制度的神圣性的努力。暗杀沙皇的运动作为一种有效的政治信息形式出现在逮捕协议中，在大众的想象中得到了真正的认可。它促使下层俄罗斯人在人民主权、自然正义和政治问责制方面表达自己的当地不满。