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Politics and Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

F. D. Reeve*
Affiliation:
Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University

Extract

On October 17, 1905, the tsar published a decree establishing freedom of speech and of the press in Russia. Very soon, however, restrictions were again imposed: even preliminary censorship quickly returned. That brief period in the fall of 1905 remains important in the political and literary history of Russia; a moment when two great movements collided over the crucial issue of freedom.

The most vital and most imaginative political group in Russia at that time was Lenin's Social Democratic Party. The most vital and imaginative literary group was the Symbolists, whose activities more or less centered in the magazine Vesy (The Balance).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1957

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