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In October 1906, Guchkov became the head of the conservative liberal Union of 17 October. He had the hope that the Tsar's government would recognize the necessity of great reforms and work with the moderate liberals of the Zemstvos, while safeguarding the monarchical principle.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Guchkov (born Oct. 26 [Oct. 14, Old Style], 1862, Moscow, Russia—died Feb. 14, 1936, Paris, France) was a statesman and leader of the moderate liberal political movement in Russia between 1905 and 1917.
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Founded in late October 1905, from 1906 the party was led by the industrialist Alexander Guchkov who drew support from centrist-liberal gentry, businessmen, and some bureaucrats. Unlike their immediate neighbors to the Left, Constitutional Democrats, the Octobrists were firmly committed to a system of constitutional monarchy.
- Origins in Revolution of 1905
- Collaboration with Stolypin
- Declining Influence and Disintegration
- Bibliography
The Octobrists took their name from the October Manifesto, the promise of reform issued by Tsar Nicholas II in the midst of the Revolution of 1905. Fearing further disorders, the Octobrists rallied to the defense of the tsarist regime against both reaction and revolution, under the condition that the tsar carry to completion his pledge to rebuild R...
Guchkov's activist temperament embraced democratic values in theory, but nonetheless betrayed an admiration for strong political leaders who promised the restoration of order and national prestige. For the Octobrists, Stolypin was that leader. In the radicalized Second Duma (1907) the Octobrists were an inconsequential presence. But with Stolypin's...
Octobrism represented, in Guchkov's words, "an act of faith in The Sovereign," a calculated political gamble that the tsar and his retainers were sincere in their promise to reform. It was not long, however, before the Octobrists realized that the autocracy had not changed its stripes, and that the concessions of 1905 were being reversed as the for...
Hosking, Geoffrey A. The Russian Constitutional Experiment: Government and Duma, 1907–1914.Cambridge, U.K., 1973. McCauley, Martin. Octobrists to Bolsheviks: Imperial Russia, 1905–1917.London, 1984. Menashe, Louis. "Alexander Guchkov and the Origins of the Octobrist Party: The Russian Bourgeoisie in Politics, 1905." Ph.D. diss., New YorkUniversity,...
A prominent businessman, during the 1905 revolution he helped found the Octobrist party, which was based on acceptance of Czar Nicholas II's October Manifesto; the manifesto in effect made Russia a constitutional monarchy.
In October 1906, Alexander Guchkov became the head of the conservative liberal Union of 17 October. 10. Alexander Guchkov had the hope that the Tsar's government would recognize the necessity of great reforms and work with the moderate liberals of the Zemstvos, while safeguarding the monarchical principle.
Octobrist, member of a conservative-liberal Russian political party whose program of moderate constitutionalism called for the fulfillment of the emperor Nicholas II’s October Manifesto. Founded in November 1905, the party was led by the industrialist Aleksandr Ivanovich Guchkov and drew support
