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In leftist terminology, individual terror, a form of revolutionary terror, is the murder of isolated individuals with the goal of promotion of a political movement, of provoking political changes, up to political revolution.[1][2] As such, it differs from other forms of targeted killing, in particular, the close type of individual murder, the ancient practice of political assassination.[2]
- ^ Lev Sedov "On the Moscow Trials," Ch. 10, "Marxism and Individual Terror" Archived 2012-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Ze'ev Iviansky, "Individual Terror: Concept and Typology," doi:10.1177/002200947701200102 Journal of Contemporary History January 1977 vol. 12 no. 1 43-63