Commies

Right now I'm reading The Black Book of Communism. Here's an interesting passage discussing the death toll of political prisoners in czarist Russia (pg. 13-14):

"...From 1825 to 1917 the total number of people sentenced to death in Russia for their political beliefs or activities was 6.360, of whom only 3,932 were executed. This number can be subdivided chronologically into 191 for the years 1825-1905 and 3,741 for 1906-1910. These figures were surpassed by the Bolsheviks in March 1918, after they had been in power for only four months (italics mine).