in the campaign “First World War in Chechnya: removal of the "unreliable element" into the "Savage Division", extraordinary security and mobilization of strikers (1914-1917)”
On 13 August 1914 the Russian Empire placed the Terek oblast under the regime of "extraordinary security" - an imperial regime that handed the residents over to the extrajudicial powers of the administration - and then the oblast administration issued an order "on the protection of tranquility at the enterprises", under which the fate of "violators of tranquility" was decided by military courts[1]. How this worked can be seen from the strike of May 1916 at the Grozny oil fields: the administration brought armed Cossacks onto the fields, they arrested 13 workers, and, as historians Ya. Z. Akhmadov and E. Kh. Khasmagomadov remark, "all those arrested turned out to be Muslims"[1]. The police arrested nine more workers on the first day of the strike - for sounding the alarm whistles of the plants[1].