This was the journal of the left wing of the SRs, promoting a return to the use of terrorism, including regicide, to achieve revolutionary goals. According to scholar Teodor Shanin in his Russia, 1905-07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth​, the paper "provided continuity between the SR Maximalists, who left the party in 1906 and were destroyed by police action, and the left-wing SRs who would ally with the Bolsheviks in 1917."