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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...designation as the "Revolution of 1905," actually began in 1904 and...and winter of 1904 – 1905 unleashed the so-called banquet...
Russian Revolution
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Russian Revolution violent upheaval...group of educated Russians. Among this growing...Zionism . Non-Russian nationalities in...The Revolution of 1905 The Russian Revolution of 1905...Although most Russians welcomed the
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 ...published at the peak of Revolution of 1905, following the general strike of October of 1905 in which 2 million people...effect on October 19, 1905, with the appointment...1970). First Blood: The Russian Revolution of 1905. New...
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Valentinovich Plekhanov The Russian revolutionist and social...theoretical contributions to Russian Marxism. Plekhanov criticized...commune and the growth of Russian capitalism with a proletariat...strategy of a two-stage revolution: first, the proletariat...Russian Revolution of ...
Russo-Japanese War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Manchuria and Korea . Russian failure to withdraw from...growing threat of internal revolution in Russia. Japan broke...Port Arthur (Jan., 1905), the victory of troops...Shenyang (Feb.-Mar., 1905), and the destruction...Togo 's fleet (May, 1905). Through the mediation...
Bolshevism and Menshevism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...two main branches of Russian socialism from 1903 until...pamphlet published in 1905, Lenin outlined his concept of revolution in Russia: since the Russian bourgeoisie was too weak...Russian Revolution of 1905 was a common effort of...
Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian prince, was both a scientist...After the failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Kropotkin tried to find its...Europe. After the collapse of the Russian autocracy in 1917, Kropotkin...
Spiridonova, Maria Alexandrovna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...heroic martyrdom during the first Russian revolution of 1905 – 1907. In January...and chaste young woman of the Russian upper classes who had killed...however punitive, because the Russian population was opposed to continuing...

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...Sunday (22 January 1905). Demonstrations...control by the end of 1905. Ensuing peasant...essential failure of the revolution. Perhaps its most...the 1917 Russian Revolutions .
Russian Revolutions
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Russian Revolutions (1917) From the end of the nineteenth century, rapid...political, legal, or administrative reforms, despite the 1905 Russian Revolution . The tensions inherent in Russian society were multiplied by the strains of World War...
Russian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Russian of, pertaining to, or characteristic...of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Russian Revolution the revolution in the Russian empire in 1917, in which the tsarist...Lenin. The Russian Revolution of 1905 is the name given to a demonstration...
Russia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...political rights led to the Russian Revolution of 1905. As the state gathered its...address the root causes of the 1905 Revolution, and the economic and military...War I, led to the Russian Revolutions of 1917, which ultimately...
Duma
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Duma A Russian council or assembly...opinion after the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first (10 May...which sat until the Russian Revolutions of 1917, was less effective...the popularly elected Russian assembly created by...
Bolshevik
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Bolshevik (Russian, ‘a member of the majority...Tsarist autocracy. After the abortive RUSSIAN REVOLUTION of 1905 Bolshevik leaders fled abroad, having...Government, following the February RUSSIAN REVOLUTION in 1917. The infiltration...
Witte, Sergei Yulyevich, Count
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...1849–1915) Russian statesman. As Finance...1903) and Premier (1905–06), he...the eve of political revolution Russia underwent a remarkable...authoritarian rule, during the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION of 1905 he urged NICHOLAS II...
Finland
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...its relationship with its overbearing Russian neighbour to the east. It was ceded...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...

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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...Evangelical Christians from 1905 (the year when main...period of Russian revolutions, the fall of the...the Revolution of 1905, and then to the...
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 Guide...valuable reference work on the Russian revolution. This guide encompasses...period of Russian history from 1905 to 1921 (including works on the...
Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946, by EDWARD E. ROSLOF...state of Russian Orthodoxy in 1905. Already Orthodoxy showed signs...marched on the Winter Palace in 1905, only to be gunned down by...
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 J. Coleman...tumultuous but yet dynamic period of Russian Baptist history. The work focuses...with the euphoria of toleration in 1905 but facing increasing restriction...
Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Sheremetev's Union of Russian Men, and the anti...ultra-nationalist Russian Assembly. Although...common horror of the 1905 Manifesto, a detestation...Ukrainians and Great Russians. The achievements of...successive state Dumas after 1905. Even after the franchise...survived. As the Bolshevik ...
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 ; The Revolution of 1905: A Short History. By Abraham Ascher...best one-volume history of the Russian Revolution of 1905, but a model of writing on a large...lengthier and treated only the year 1905. In this book, the author argues...
The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...superb two-volume study of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Abraham Ascher focuses on events...to take hold in Russia during 1905-1907. He returns to a theme...the opposition's efforts in 1905, became the vortex of the many...
The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored, vol. 2.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...s magisterial overview of the Russian revolution of 1905, a set of events which have long...renevmd scholarly interest in 1905, Ascher demonstrates convincingly...Volume two begins in November 1905, a time often seen as the beginning...
Ascher, Abraham: the Revolution of 1905: a Short History.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...readings. That said, The Revolution of 1905: A Short History is far...most important is that 1905 was a complex, spontaneous...courses dealing with the Russian or comparative revolutions, The Revolution of 1905: A Short History could...