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CONTENTS

Part I The History of the Revolutionary Movement in

Russia
CHAPTER I
The Decembrists--The First Russian Revolutionists 		19
The founding of the first Russian revolutionary organizations after
the Napoleonic War--Pavel Pestel--"Union of Salvation"--Its
aim--Mikhail Muraviov--"Union of Welfare"--Its aims--Mutiny
in the Semionovsky Regiment in 1820--"Society of United Slavs"--
The "Northern Society"--Its Constitution--The "Southern So-
ciety's" Constitution--The uprising of December 14, 1825--The trial
of the Decembrists--Executions and prison sentences--The find-
ings of the Investigating Committee.
CHAPTER II
The Revolutionary Movement during the Reign of Nicholas I
and the First Part of the Reign of Alexander II 		28
Student-circles in the University of Moscow--Hertzen's Circle--
Stankevitch's Circle--The "educational" policy of Nicholas I--
The effect of the French Revolution of 1848 on the Russian
"intelligentsia"--Bielinsky, the "Annals of the Fatherland" and
the "Contemporary"--The Buturlin Committee--Censorship
measures--The Petrashevsky Circle and F. M. Dostoievsky--
The War with Turkey in 1853--Spreading of revolutionary senti-
ment among the conservative elements and the masses--Death of
Nicholas I.
The beginning of the reign of Alexander II--The reform move-
ment--Alexander Hertzen and his "Bell"--The emancipation of the
serfs in 1861--Disturbances among the peasantry--The movement
in the University of Kazan--The movement among the nobility
of the Province of Tver--Peter Kropotkin's characterization of
Alexander II--The movement in commercial and industrial circles
--Growth of revolutionary spirit among "intelligentsia"--Cherny-
shevsky's arrest--Karakozov's attempt on life of Alexander II--
Governmental repressions--Count Dmitri Tolstoy and his educa-
tional policy--Repressions against the press.
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Publication Information: Book Title: The Birth of the Russian Democracy. Contributors: A. J. Sack - author. Publisher: Russian Information Bureau. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1918. Page Number: *.
    
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