In fact, the Tsar himself proclaimed that Jews were the cause of the downfall of Russia, and openly stated that "international Jewry, through its two wings, Jewish capitalism and Jewish socialism, is fomenting revolution aiming to overthrow the Russian regime" (Wistrich 46). On the topic of the Black Hundred, Tsay Nicholas II showed his enthusiasm by calling them a "shining example of justice and order to all men" (Laqueur 19). An overall fear of revolution that had seized Russia during the early 1900"s was a primary cause of the popularity of the Black Hundred. They found support mainly among the aristocrats and members other lower-middle class. Although they were nowhere near a major party in Russia, they did make a major impact on the Jews of Russia, who were constantly being oppressed by their campaigns. .

             The Black Hundred first utilized pogroms as a means of eradication of the Jews in October 1905. At that time, when the Tsar Nicholas II issued his October manifesto, furnishing the people with a democratic constitution, the Jews were chosen by the Black Hundred as scapegoats for the issuance of the new constitution. The establishment of the Duma was the worst fear of these rightists (Obraztsov passim). .

             According to the Black Hundred philosophy, the Jews were a race that secretly strove to take over the world. They were viewed as dangerous capitalists who strove to undermine the tsarist regime and to establish the rule of Jewish capitalism. The justification for pogroms is quoted from a speech by a member or the SRN which states that the Black Hundred "never, under any circumstance, appealed for the murder of anyone." The pogroms were, according to the rightists, always triggered by "brutalized, predatory, and insatiable Judea," who were tacking the unarmed Russian population (Lavrinovich 236). .

             Another significant leader of the Black Hundred was Markov II.