The Iron Heel is getting bold." * The Black Hundreds were reactionary mobs organized by the perishing Autocracy in the Russian Revolution.

These reactionary groups attacked the revolutionary groups, and also, at needed moments, rioted and destroyed property so as to afford the Autocracy the pretext of calling out the Cossacks.
And so perished father's book.

We were to see much of the Black Hundreds as the days went by.

Week by week more of the socialist papers were barred from the mails, and in a number of instances the Black Hundreds destroyed the socialist presses.

Of course, the newspapers of the land lived up to the reactionary policy of the ruling class, and the destroyed socialist press was misrepresented and vilified, while the Black Hundreds were represented as true patriots and saviours of society.