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Maximalists

A Russian party once a wing of the Socialist-Revolutionaries who aimed to supplement the SR tactic of political terrorism with economic terrorism. In this they aimed to assassinate landlords and bourgeois instead of targeting political figures. Their primary means of finance was through holding up banks. Among its leaders were I. Pavlov, who described the exploiters as a "degenerate race" who had developed "all the most vile characteristics in humans". The party concluded in its programme, that all members of such a race needed to be exterminated, as the affliction was a genetic one, passed down onto children.

The Maximalists were banished from the SR party in October 1906 and formed their own party, officially called the Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists.