When Soldiers Open Fire on a Protest. Massacres in Riga, Tallinn, and Minsk in 1905

his article compares three of the most horrific shootings against protesters in Riga, Tallinn, and Minsk during the Revolution of 1905. The aim of this comparison is to find similarities in these events that would reflect the tsarist authorities’ principles on the use of deadly force against protesters in general. The article also claims that shootings against protesters in the Western borderlands of the Russian Empire all together had more influence on radicalising the situation than it has been acknowledged in studies that give a general perspective of the Revolution of 1905.