TY - JOUR
AU - Gershoy, Leo
AB - REVIEWS No . 3] 45 9 sober analysis the author himself makes it plain that the Decembrists had no solution for the problem. Muraviev wavered between land- less emancipation and the allotment of a scant five acres per family, with preservation of the commune (p. 94) ; while Pestel advocated abolition of landlordism (pp. 105-106) on the basis of a scheme borrowed from revolutionary France, and " Pestel was no socialist, nor communist" (p. 115). There is a sharp difference between the chapters devoted specifi- cally to the Decembrist movement and those which seek to build up the concept of the first Russian Revolution, " the prologue to the Russian Revolution of 1917 ". Assuredly the Decembrist movement may be styled the first Russian revolutionary movement, but between a revolutionary movement and a revolution is all the difference be- tween a swallow and a summer. Th e historical interest of the Decembrist movement lies neither in its aims nor in its technique. Its peculiar stamp is the fact that for the first time in Russia had been attempted revolution on a conscious ideological basis. Decembrist thought was meager and confused, but Decembrist martyrdom for an ideology inspired succeeding genera- 
TI - The Lives of Talleyrand, by Crane Brinton
JO - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/2143840
DA - 1938-09-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-lives-of-talleyrand-by-crane-brinton-55Ox0bibi0
SP - 459
EP - 461
VL - 53
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -