The Role of the Russian Intelligentsia and Decembrists in the First Half of the 19th Century as the Predecessors of the 1917 Revolutionaries
Abstract
The paper focuses on the period of the decembrists uprising and generally on the reign of Alexander I and Nicholas I. Based on the analysis of the influence of the young Russian decembrists generation and intelligentsia, the paper tries to relate the initial roots of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to this period, when came about to the creation of main preconditions for the emergence of Russian revolutionary tendencies and their dynamic development in the second half of the nineteenth century.
At that time, Russian intelligentisia was linked by intensive dealing with the question of Russian serfdom and its criticism, as well as the fight against other maladies of the Tsarist government, as well as intensive efforts to engage in meaningful dialogue with the Russian government. The aim of the paper is to emphasize some historical aspects and causes of the Russian Revolution at the beginning of the 20th century independently of the tendentious Marxist historiography.