The First Russian Revolution, 1825
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the bitter cold of December 1825, a group of idealistic Russian army officers stormed Senate Square in St. Petersburg, igniting an audacious uprising against the Tsarist autocracy that would reverberate through the empire for decades — this is the gripping story of the Decembrist Revolt, one of the most consequential yet overlooked insurrections in modern European history. Anatole G. Mazour's landmark study chronicles the origins, execution, and ultimate failure of this first organised revolutionary movement in Russia, tracing the intellectual currents of Enlightenment liberalism that inspired a generation of noblemen to risk everything in pursuit of constitutional reform and the abolition of serfdom. Mazour argues with scholarly precision that the Decembrist movement was not merely a failed coup, but a watershed moment that planted the seeds of revolutionary consciousness deep within Russian political culture, seeds that would eventually flower into the upheavals of 1905 and 1917. Drawing on extensive archival research and a nuanced understanding of early 19th-century Russian society, he presents the conspirators not as reckless agitators but as tragic idealists caught between an ancient autocratic order and a Europe transformed by Napoleonic liberalism. Written with authoritative clarity and historical sweep, this is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand how Russia's revolutionary destiny was forged — and why the ghosts of Senate Square never truly rested.
Author: Anatole G. Mazour
Format: Paperback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the bitter cold of December 1825, a group of idealistic Russian army officers stormed Senate Square in St. Petersburg, igniting an audacious uprising against the Tsarist autocracy that would reverberate through the empire for decades — this is the gripping story of the Decembrist Revolt, one of the most consequential yet overlooked insurrections in modern European history. Anatole G. Mazour's landmark study chronicles the origins, execution, and ultimate failure of this first organised revolutionary movement in Russia, tracing the intellectual currents of Enlightenment liberalism that inspired a generation of noblemen to risk everything in pursuit of constitutional reform and the abolition of serfdom. Mazour argues with scholarly precision that the Decembrist movement was not merely a failed coup, but a watershed moment that planted the seeds of revolutionary consciousness deep within Russian political culture, seeds that would eventually flower into the upheavals of 1905 and 1917. Drawing on extensive archival research and a nuanced understanding of early 19th-century Russian society, he presents the conspirators not as reckless agitators but as tragic idealists caught between an ancient autocratic order and a Europe transformed by Napoleonic liberalism. Written with authoritative clarity and historical sweep, this is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand how Russia's revolutionary destiny was forged — and why the ghosts of Senate Square never truly rested.