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The First Russian Revolution 1825
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The First Russian Revolution 1825
Anatole G. Mazour
A reissue. "The Russian Revolution is a process which started probably with Peter the Great and which has not yet been concluded. It is the effort of the transformation of a backward and oppressive form of society into a more progressive one which would assure more justice and more liberty to the peoples of Russia. In this long process there are two outstanding events which mark turning points. The second and much better known is the Revolution of 1917 and its rapid transition from February to October. The first, much less know, is the so-called decembrist Movement which led to the first revolutionary explosion in Russia in December 1825, ninety-two years before Lenin inaugurated a new stage of the Russian Revolution. The revolution of December 14, 1825, was a very short-lived affair, quickly suppressed, without any outward significance. But inwardly, this first attempt on the part of Russia intellectuals, members of the aristocracy, to liberalize and humanize the Russian regime was of utmost significance. It was the start of all the later revolutionary movements of the Russian intelligentsia. It was the source of inspiration to the succeeding generations.
"Notwithstanding the importance o f the Decembrist Movement, there did not exist until now a detailed treatise on its origins, development, and significance. The present book by Dr. Mazour tries to fill the gap, and it does it so well, at least for some time to come, it can be regarded not only as the first but also the definitive book on its subject...The author not only presents us with the history of the Decembrist Movement, but traces it background back to about 1800 and practically covers the ground of a history of the liberal and revolutionary movements in Russia from 1800 to 1825. He gives us a detailed story of t he rise and development of both branches of the revolutionary movement then, then Northern Society and the Southern Society, their program discussions, their preparations for the revolt, their defeat and their trial, and ends with a description of their life in exile in Siberia." -- The Annals.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
The first Russian revolution, 1825: the Decembrist movement, its origins, development, and significance
Anatole Gregory Mazour
Stanford University Press, 1937
ISBN 0804700818, 9780804700818
324 pages
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Coerced and Free Migration : Global Perspectives
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This volume is an innovative history of major worldwide population movements, free and forced, from around 1500 to the early twentieth century. It explores the shifting levels of freedom under which migrants traveled and compares the experiences of migrants (and their descendants) who arrived under drastically different labor regimes.
The themes of the collection are structured around changes in migration regimes over time, as well as the implications of those changes for the source and host societies, and the migrants themselves. The central and unifying issue is the varying degrees of freedom in the different migratory regimes and what this meant in the long run. In the initial period covered by the book, freedom to migrate had steadily eroded, and migration itself became gradually more free only in the nineteenth century.
All eleven authors have widely acknowledged expertise not only in particular geographic or national branches of migration but also in more than one migratory or labor regime. The volume's wide geographical range incorporates the expansion of Europe eastward (under serfdom), as well as the extension of Africa and Europe westward across the Atlantic (slave, free, and indentured servant regimes), and movements from Asia and Africa by contract laborers. For the first time, experts on the various kinds of migrants have combined to address the issue of migration from the standpoint of the labor arrangement under which the migrants traveled. The result is a collection rich in comparative insights yet cohesive in terms of the issues addressed.
CONTRIBUTORS: Philip D. Curtin, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Colin Forster, Richard Hellie, Walton Look Lai, David Moon, David Northrup, Mechal Sobel, Lorena S. Walsh, Marianne S. Wokeck
Free and Coerced Migrations from the Old World 33
transatlantic migration , indentured servants , Bight of Biafra
Changing Laws and Regulations and Their Impact 75
transatlantic slave trade , nomic , serfdom
The Epidemiology of Migration 94
yellow fever , Southern United , sickle-cell trait
The Differential Cultural Impact of Free and Coerced 117
Chesapeake , Bight of Biafra , Creole
Irish and German Migration to EighteenthCentury 152
indentured servitude , Delaware Valley , Ireland
Migration and Collective Identities among the Enslaved 176
Igbo , William Otter , Venture Smith
Freedom and Indentured Labor in the French Caribbean 204
Guadeloupe , Martinique , Atlantic slave trade
Asian Contract and Free Migrations to the Americas 229
Surinam , Southeast Asia , Mauritius
Unwilling Migrants from Britain and France 259
South Wales , Caledonia , Van Diemen's Land
Migration in Early Modern Russia 1480s1780s 292
Muscovy , Oprichnina , Crimean Tatars
Peasant Migration the Abolition of Serfdom 324
Ukraine , internal passport , Black Earth region
Abbreviations 361
David Eltis , Atlantic Slave Trade , Transatlantic Migration
Index 433
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