Increasing challenges to autocratic rule reached a boiling point in 1905. In order to avoid total disaster, Sergei Witte called for a reform of the political system. Witte wrote the famous October Manifesto, which calmed the unrest following the shooting … Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Comrades' Corner, Week 2 Posts
What constitutes a Constitution?
by gracehemmingson •
Increasing challenges to autocratic rule reached a boiling point in 1905. In order to avoid total disaster, Sergei Witte called for a reform of the political system. Witte wrote the famous October Manifesto, which calmed the unrest following the shooting … Continue reading →
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Three Strikes and….then more strikes
by phillip5 •
The years leading up to the 1905 Russian revolution was full of growth and conflict. Russia was experiencing remarkable industrial growth around the turn of the century. However this progress lead to some major dissatisfaction among the middle class workers there. This disatisfaction lead to unrest and additional conflict all over Russia. Moscow and St. […]
Week 2 Posts
Three Strikes and….then more strikes
by phillip5 •
The years leading up to the 1905 Russian revolution was full of growth and conflict. Russia was experiencing remarkable industrial growth around the turn of the century. However this progress lead to some major dissatisfaction among the middle class workers there. This disatisfaction lead to unrest and additional conflict all over Russia. Moscow and St. […]
Week 2 Posts
Lenin and “What is to be Done?”
by Robyn Walters •
In 1901, Vladimir I. Lenin began writing his famous work, “What is to be Done?”. Less than a year later, “What is to be Done” was published in the spring of 1902. Lenin’s work was written as a prequsor to the Bolshevick Revolution in 1917. In “What is to be Done?”, Lenin lays out his plan […]
Students' Choice
Students Choose Cossacks and Crimea
by A Nelson •
We all agreed that the discussion in the comments this week was exemplary. Indeed many of the comments were so substantial as to warrant a post of their own. We salute the discussion of War in Crimea, 19th-Century Russia and the response to the post about the Cossacks as the “student choice” winners for this round. Thanks to everyone who responded with queries and elaborations this week. You editorial team looks forward to a terrific semester of debate and enlightenment.
Motherblog Central Directives
Images of Imperial Russia
by A Nelson •
Welcome to the first weekly digest! We’ve had a few bumps (and the WordPress Widget gods are on strike as I type this), but our first edition is ready to go. The photographs from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection prompted a series of wide-ranging and insightful posts dealing with Imperial Russian society between the Great Reforms and…
Blogpost Guidelines, Motherblog Central Directives
Second Blogpost Guidelines – Updated Thursday 9/4
by A Nelson •
Our second set of blog posts will focus on the development of a revolutionary movement in Russia and the revolution of 1905. You should start by reading Freeze (Chapter 8) and then develop one of the following topics: 1) Marxism / Leninism. Use the resources in the Marxist Internet Archive to examine the development of…
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The Last Deportation
by Steven Nagy •
When I first sat down to write about this photo, my efforts were focused on the large number of different ethnic minority groups that made up the population of the Soviet Union. As the caption of the picture above states, just the region where this picture was taken is home to many different ethnic groups. […]
Week 1 Posts
The Last Deportation
by Steven Nagy •
When I first sat down to write about this photo, my efforts were focused on the large number of different ethnic minority groups that made up the population of the Soviet Union. As the caption of the picture above states, just the region where this picture was taken is home to many different ethnic groups. […]