Union of the Russian People

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The Union of the Russian People (URP; Russian: Союз русского народа, romanized: Soyuz russkogo naroda, СРН/SRN) was a royalist far-right nationalist political party, the most important among Black-Hundredist monarchist political organizations in the Russian Empire between 1905 and 1917. Since 2005, organizational cells of the Union have been undergoing a revival in Russia and Ukraine. Founded in October 1905, its aim was to rally the people behind Great Russian nationalism and the Tsar, espousing anti-socialist, anti-liberal, and above all antisemitic views. By 1906, it had over 300,000 members. Its paramilitary armed bands, called the Black Hundreds, fought revolutionaries violently in the streets. Its leaders organised a series of political assassinations of deputies and other representatives of parties which supported the Russian Revolution of 1905, most notably the murders of Mikhail Herzenstein and Grigory Iollos, both Kadet Duma deputies, responsibility for which was later acknowledged...

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