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Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte , 1849-1915, Russian premier. A railway administrator, he became minister of communications (1892) and minister of finance (1892-1903). He introduced the gold standard, reformed finances, encouraged the development of Russian industries with the help of foreign capital, ... Read more
Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War 1904-5, imperialistic conflict that grew out of the rival designs of Russia and Japan on Manchuria and Korea . Russian failure to withdraw from Manchuria and Russian penetration into N Korea were countered by Japanese attempts to negotiate a division of the area into spheres o... Read more
Kronshtadt
Kronshtadt , city, NW European Russia, on the small island of Kotlin in the Gulf of Finland, c.15 mi (20 km) from Saint Petersburg . It is one of the chief naval bases for the Russian Baltic fleet. The harbor is icebound for several months each year. It was founded (1703) by Peter I as a port and a... Read more
pogrom
pogrom , Russian term, originally meaning "riot," that came to be applied to a series of violent attacks on Jews in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th cent. Pogroms were few before the assassination of Alexander II in 1881; after that, with the connivance of, or at least without hindrance ... Read more
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov , 1905-84, Russian novelist. Sholokhov won international fame for an epic novel of his native land, The Silent Don (4 vol., 1928-40; tr. in 2 vol., And Quiet Flows the Don, 1934, and The Don Flows Home to the Sea, 1941). The work, which won a Stalin Prize in 19... Read more
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov , 1876-1951, Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat. A Jew, he changed his name from Wallach after joining the Social Democratic party. He became a member of the Bolshevik wing after the party split (1903). He took part in the Revolution of 1905 and subsequently spent ye... Read more
Nicholas II
Nicholas II 1868-1918, last czar of Russia (1894-1917), son of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna . Road to Revolution Nicholas was educated by private tutors and the reactionary Pobyedonostzev . Alexander III gave his son little training in affairs of state, and Nicholas proved to be... Read more
Valentin Petrovich Katayev
Valentin Petrovich Katayev , 1897-1986, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Katayev's novels portray almost the entire range of Soviet life, from the period of the New Economic Policy ( The Embezzlers, 1926, tr. 1929) through the first Five-Year Plan ( Time, Forward!, 1932, tr. 1... Read more
Treaty of Portsmouth
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905, treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War. It was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Base, New Hampshire, on Sept. 5, 1905. Negotiations leading up to the treaty began in the spring of 1905 when Russia had suffered severe defeats and Japan was in financial difficulties. Therefore,... Read more
Vladivostok
Vladivostok , city (1989 pop. 634,000), capital of Maritime Territory (Primorsky Kray), Russian Far East, on a peninsula that extends between two bays of the Sea of Japan. It is the chief Russian port on the Pacific (kept open in winter by icebreakers), the terminus of the Trans-Siberian RR and the ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Russian Revolution of 1905"

Russian Revolution of 1905
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Russian Revolution of 1905 Series of violent strikes and protests against Tsarist rule in Russia. It was provoked mainly by defeat in the Russo-Japanese...
Revolution of 1905
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History REVOLUTION OF 1905 The immediate background to the first Russian revolution, which, despite its designation as the "Revolution of 1905," actually began in 1904 and ended in 1907, was...
Russian Revolution
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and Menshevik wings of the Social Democratic Labor party (see Bolshevism and Menshevism ). The Revolution of 1905 The Russian Revolution of 1905 began in St. Petersburg on Jan. 22 (Jan. 9, O.S.) when troops fired on a defenseless crowd...
Shahumian, Stepan Georgievich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Bolsheviks in Baku during the Russian Revolution who perished as one of the famous...Berlin, where he joined the Russian Social Democratic Workers...movement in Baku during the first Russian revolution (1905 – 1907) and throughout...
October Manifesto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...The Revolution of 1905. Vol.1: Russia in...First Blood: The Russian Revolution of 1905. New York: Macmillan...Tsarist Government in the 1905 Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana...Marc. (1976). The Russian Constitution of April...
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Second Congress of the Russian Social Democrats in...was weakened by the Russian Revolution of 1905, which tested his theory of the two-stage revolution and found it inadequate...began The History of Russian Social Thought, his...
Russo-Japanese War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...threat of internal revolution in Russia. Japan...bottled up the Russian fleet. A series...Arthur (Jan., 1905), the victory...s fleet (May, 1905). Through the...immediate causes of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Japan gained...
Bolshevism and Menshevism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pamphlet published in 1905, Lenin outlined his concept of revolution in Russia: since the Russian bourgeoisie was...to lead its own revolution, the proletarians...back again. The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a common effort...
Bolshevism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution . New York: A.A. Knopf...Fitzpatrick, Sheila. 2001. The Russian Revolution . New York: Oxford University...Haimson, Leopold H. 2005. Russian Revolutionary Experience, 1905 – 1917 . New York...
Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...later published as In Russian and French Prisons...the failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Kropotkin tried to...studying the French Revolution. In The Great French...the collapse of the Russian autocracy in 1917...

Dictionary entries related to "Russian Revolution of 1905"

Russian Revolution
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Russian Revolution (1905) A series of urban...discontent among non-Russian national groups...immediately, the revolution itself was caused...Sunday (22 January 1905). Demonstrations...response in the non-Russian parts of the Empire...
Russian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...Eastern Orthodox Church. Russian Revolution the revolution in the Russian empire in 1917, in which the tsarist regime...replaced by Bolshevik rule under Lenin. The Russian Revolution of 1905 is the name given to a demonstration in St Petersburg...
Russian Revolutions
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Russian Revolutions (1917) From the end of the nineteenth century...political, legal, or administrative reforms, despite the 1905 Russian Revolution . The tensions inherent in Russian society were multiplied by the strains of World War I...
Bolshevik
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Bolshevik (Russian, ‘a member of the majority...autocracy. After the abortive RUSSIAN REVOLUTION of 1905 Bolshevik leaders fled abroad...Government, following the February RUSSIAN REVOLUTION in 1917. The infiltration by Bolsheviks...
Witte, Sergei Yulyevich, Count
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...export. Thus on the eve of political revolution Russia underwent a remarkable industrial revolution. Although Witte's ideal was economic...with authoritarian rule, during the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION of 1905 he urged NICHOLAS II to issue the October...
Russia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...and political rights led to the Russian Revolution of 1905. As the state gathered its forces...address the root causes of the 1905 Revolution, and the economic and military collapse of World War I, led to the Russian Revolutions of 1917, which ultimately...
Finland
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...it became an autonomous member of the Russian Empire. In an attempt to integrate...nationalism and increasing resistance to Russian rule. Many Finns readily took part in the Russian Revolution of 1905, whereupon autonomy was restored...
Stolypin, Piort Arkadevich
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Arkadevich (1862–1911) Russian statesman. The last effective statesman of the Russian empire, he was Premier (1906...punishment of activists in the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION of 1905, for his disregard of the DUMAS...
Estonia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...most of the subsequent period of Russian rule. From 1855, when they...Clumsy attempts to introduce the Russian language and culture backfired...and this accelerated after the Russian Revolution of 1905. After 1914, the independence...
Duma
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Duma A Russian council or assembly. In 1906, Tsar...to pacify popular opinion after the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first (10 May–22...fourth Duma, which sat until the Russian Revolutions of 1917, was less effective...

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The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921: A Bibliographic Guide to Works in English
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Murray Frame, compiler. The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921: A Bibliographic...valuable reference work on the Russian revolution. This guide encompasses the entire period of Russian history from 1905 to 1921 (including works...
Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946, by EDWARD...air for all of Russian society's institutions...with the state of Russian Orthodoxy in 1905. Already Orthodoxy...leading up to the Revolution of 1917, readers...
Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Heather J. Coleman. Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929. Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European...to events of the Revolution of 1905, and then to the...of two separate Russian evangelical unions...
Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Baptist History and Heritage; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929. By Heather...dynamic period of Russian Baptist history...of toleration in 1905 but facing increasing...book suggests, Russian Baptists conducted a "Revolution of the Spirit...
Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...including Gringmut's Russian Monarchist Party, which...Sheremetev's Union of Russian Men, and the anti...ultra-nationalist Russian Assembly. Although only...common horror of the 1905 Manifesto, a detestation...survived. As the Bolshevik Revolution and all its consequences...
The French Revolution in Russian intellectual life, 1865-1905. (reprint with new intro., 1996).(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 557 words ; 9781412807807 The French Revolution in Russian intellectual life, 1865-1905. (reprint with new intro., 1996) Shlapentokh...traces the influence of the myths of the French Revolution on conservative Slavophiles, liberal capitalists...
The Revolution of 1905: A Short History.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...history of the Russian Revolution of 1905, but a model...history of the 1905 Revolution but on the most...late imperial Russian history as well...broader flow of Russian history, characterizing...description of the 1905 Revolution also reminds...
The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...volume study of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Abraham Ascher...the inability of Russian society to make...immaturity of Russian society as a whole...s efforts in 1905, became the vortex...conflicts of the revolution were played out...
The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored, vol. 2.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...overview of the Russian revolution of 1905, a set of events...obscures the earlier revolution's significance...scholarly interest in 1905, Ascher demonstrates...begins in November 1905, a time often...beginning of the revolution's end. Tsarist...
Ascher, Abraham: the Revolution of 1905: a Short History.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...all of its limitations, 1905 established a multiparty...general, objective portrait of 1905 or for college-level courses dealing with the Russian or comparative revolutions, The Revolution of 1905: A Short History could be...