Boris Savinkov

Boris Savinkov was a Russian revolutionary, terrorist, and writer who led the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s Combat Organization and later fought against Bolshevik rule.

Yevno Azef: Yevno Azef was a Russian revolutionary who led the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s Combat Organization while secretly serving as a police informant. Azef led the organization before Savinkov and was exposed as an informant in 1908.
Combat Organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party: The Combat Organization was the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s clandestine unit for political assassinations and attacks. Savinkov became one of its leading organizers and operatives.
Russian Revolution of 1905: The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of strikes, protests, and uprisings that forced concessions from Tsar Nicholas II. The upheaval intensified the revolutionary conflict in which Savinkov operated.
Union for the Defence of the Motherland and Freedom: The Union for the Defence of the Motherland and Freedom was an anti-Bolshevik organization founded by Savinkov in 1918. It shows how he redirected underground organizing against the new Soviet government.
Operation Trust: Operation Trust was a Soviet secret-police deception that created a fictitious anti-Bolshevik organization in the 1920s. The operation lured Savinkov into the Soviet Union and enabled his arrest in 1924.
Yevno Azef affair: The Yevno Azef affair was the 1908 exposure of a Socialist Revolutionary leader as a police informant. Azef’s exposure discredited the Combat Organization in which Savinkov had served.
Socialist Revolutionary Party: The Socialist Revolutionary Party was a Russian political party rooted in peasant socialism and revolutionary opposition to the tsarist state. Its party structure and ideology provided the political framework for Savinkov’s clandestine work.
Russian Revolution: The Russian Revolution was the political upheaval that ended the Romanov monarchy and brought the Bolsheviks to power in 1917. Savinkov’s career unfolded across the revolutions and civil war that transformed Russia.
Yaroslavl uprising: The Yaroslavl uprising was an anti-Bolshevik revolt in the Russian city of Yaroslavl in July 1918. Savinkov’s organization helped plan and support this armed revolt.
State Political Directorate: The State Political Directorate was the Soviet security agency responsible for state security and political policing from 1922 to 1934. Its predecessor agency captured Savinkov after he entered the Soviet Union.

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