Chernoe Znamia

Chernoe Znamia (The Black Banner)
A meeting of the Chernoznamentsy in Minsk in 1906.
Dates of operation	1903–1908
Motives	Overthrow of governments; establishment of an anarchist society.
Active regions	Western and southern regions of the Russian Empire.
Ideology	Anarchism (Anarcho-communism)
Major actions	Various acts of robbery and assassination.

Chernoe Znamia (or Chornoe Znamia) (Russian: Чёрное знамя, English: The Black Banner), known as the Chernoznamentsy, was a Russian anarchist communist organisation. It emerged in 1903 as a federation of cadres.^[1] It took its name, "The Black Banner", from the anarchist black flag.^[2]