Decembrist

Speech parts

1. Decembrist - Noun

2. Decembrist - Adjective

Meaning

Decembrist (plural Decembrists)

(historical) A participant in, or sympathizer with, the Decembrist revolt.

Decembrist (not comparable)

According to or derived from the politics or philosophy of the Decembrists.

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Having experienced the trauma of the Decembrist Revolt on the very first day of his reign, Nicholas I was determined to restrain Russian society. Source: Internet

Hugh Seton-Watson, ''The Russian Empire: 1801-1917 (1967) p 277 In the wake of the Decembrist revolt, the tsar moved to protect the status quo by centralizing the educational system. Source: Internet

His father's commitment to liberal ideas led to his involvement with one of the Decembrist clubs. Source: Internet

However, insurgents in the Decembrist Uprising (1825) in Saint Petersburg, had kept some of Pushkin's earlier political poems, and he quickly found himself under the strict control of government censors, unable to travel or publish at will. Source: Internet

In Tobolsk, the members received food and clothes from the Decembrist women, as well as several copies of the New Testament with a ten-ruble banknote inside each copy. Source: Internet

The document had a particular impact on the Decembrist revolt and other Russian thinkers. Source: Internet

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