Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Note on dates, etc.
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One ORIGINS
- Part Two THE FORMATION OF THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT
- Part Three WAR AND REVOLUTION
- Appendix A The origins of Beseda
- Appendix B A bibliographical note on the writings of Kuskova and Prokopovich in the years 1898–9
- Appendix C Note on sources on the formation of the Liberation Movement
- Bibliography
- Index
Part Three - WAR AND REVOLUTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Note on dates, etc.
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One ORIGINS
- Part Two THE FORMATION OF THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT
- Part Three WAR AND REVOLUTION
- Appendix A The origins of Beseda
- Appendix B A bibliographical note on the writings of Kuskova and Prokopovich in the years 1898–9
- Appendix C Note on sources on the formation of the Liberation Movement
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The war will distract the attention of the masses from political questions.
(Plehve to Kuropatkin. Kuropatkin I, p. 94)
War with Japan will be extremely unpopular in Russia. The anti-governmental party will take advantage of the war to increase sedition.
(Kuropatkin to Nicholas II. Ibid. p. 90)
The worst thing about the war is not that it is difficult to win it but that it is dreadful to win it.
(Struve in Osvobozhdeniye (1904), no. 23(47), P. 410)
What will the Russian people lose if their army and navy are routed in the Far East? …They will lose the assurance that tsarist power is indestructible…But…if their army is victorious…they will lose everything… They will lose the last hope of liberation.
(A young Russian scholar in Osvobozhdeniye (1904), no. 22(46), p. 399)
Marshal Oyama [C.-in-C. Japanese army] is the best ally in the struggle for the liberation of Russia.
(Opinion in Osvobozhdeniye (1904), no. 61, p. 186)
Down with the War ! Long live the Constituent Assembly !
(Student demonstrators. Osvobozhdeniye (1904), no. 62, pp. 210-12)
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