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Decembrist
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English
+ revolt
Etymology
From en December ist, a en ru декабри́ст 1.n 4721753716
Pronunciation
en En-us-Decembrist.ogg GA
Noun
en historical A participant in, or sympathizer with, the Decembrist revolt.
en 1960 J. P. T. Bury The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 10: The Zenith of European Power https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jRQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA358&dq=%22Decembrist%22%7C%22Decembrists%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif-6zb9LLdAhVBwYMKHTLlD3gQ6AEI2gEwIA#v=onepage&q=%22Decembrist%22%7C%22Decembrists%22&f=false 358 w:Cambridge University Press Thus on the death of Alexander I in 1825 the succession of his brother Nicholas I was delayed and confused by doubts over the heir and was marked by the bloody mutinies of the Decembrists; Nicholas died during the Crimean War when a contemporary wrote that his only choice was between abdication and death; his son, Alexander II, was assassinated by terrorists a quarter of a century later.
2003, Catherine O'Neil, With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare, University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, page 81,
Many of the Decembrists listed Pushkin's poetry as a source for their "free-thinking," and there were reports of frightened people (Pushkin himself was one of them) hastily burning unfinished poems that had circulated in manuscript.
en 2009 Frank L. Kidner; Maria Bucur; Ralph Mathisen; Sally McKee; Theodore R. Weeks Making Europe: People, Politics, and Culture, Volume II: Since 1550 Cengage Learning https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yIMSNu5OFHoC&pg=PA587&dq=%22Decembrist%22%7C%22Decembrists%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif-6zb9LLdAhVBwYMKHTLlD3gQ6AEIjwIwKQ#v=onepage&q=%22Decembrist%22%7C%22Decembrists%22&f=false 587 These liberal revolutionaries, who have gone down in history as the Decembrists, called on the army not to swear allegiance to Nicholas. The Decembrist-led rebels were surrounded by troops loyal to Nicholas on the banks of the Neva River in St. Petersburg.
Synonyms
en Dekabrist
Related terms
en Decembrism
Translations
participant in or sympathizer with the Decembrist revolt
Arabic: ar دِيسَمْبَرِيّ m, ar دِيسَمْبَرِيَّة f
Belarusian: be дзекабры́ст m, be дзекабры́стка f
Catalan: ca decabrista m f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 十二月黨人 shí'èryuèdǎngrén
Czech: cs děkabrista m, cs děkabristka f
Finnish: fi dekabristi
French: fr décembriste m f
German: de Dekabrist m, de Dekabristin f
Hebrew: he דֶקַבְּרִיסְטִ m dekabríst
Italian: it decabrista
Japanese: ja デカブリスト dekaburisuto
Korean: ko 데카브리스트
Persian: fa دسامبریست desâmbrist
Polish: pl dekabrysta m-pr, pl dekabrystka f
Romanian: ro decembrist m, ro decembriști m-p
Russian: ru декабри́ст m, ru декабри́стка f
Slovak: sk dekabrista m, sk dekabristka f
Spanish: es decembrista m f
Swedish: sv dekabrist c, sv decemberman c
Turkish: tr aralıkçı
Ukrainian: uk декабри́ст m, uk декабри́стка f
Adjective
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According to or derived from the politics or philosophy of the Decembrists.
en 1994 Lauren G. Leighton Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature: Decembrism and Freemasonry w:Penn State University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9dD4E1Yv8dsC&pg=PA17&dq=%22Decembrist%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji3Y_fmLPdAhUL7p8KHeSqAU0Q6AEIiQEwEw#v=onepage&q=%22Decembrist%22&f=false 17 The word civicism (grazhdanstvennost’) originated in the enlightenment ideal of civic Rome, perceptions of the poet as a patriotic citizen and son of the fatherland, and Decembrist dreams of a republic.
en 2008 Kathryn B. Feuer Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace w:Cornell University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xf7umXHGDPcC&pg=PA207&dq=%22Decembrist%22%7C%22Decembrists%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif-6zb9LLdAhVBwYMKHTLlD3gQ6AEIpQEwFw#v=onepage&q=%22Decembrist%22%7C%22Decembrists%22&f=false 206 War and Peace grew out of Tolstoy's attempts to write a Decembrist novel, a work that first began to take shape in October 1856, when "The Distant Field" was begun.
en 2006 Francisca de Haan; Krasimira Daskalova; Anna Loutfi Trubnikova, Mariia (1835-1897) Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries w:Central European University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hsgQjbgBOAkC&pg=PA584&dq=%22Decembrist%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji3Y_fmLPdAhUL7p8KHeSqAU0Q6AEIpQIwLg#v=onepage&q=%22Decembrist%22&f=false 584 Mariia Trubnikova was raised in an atmosphere of pious reverence for Decembrist ideals.
Translations
derived from the Decembrists
Catalan: ca decabrista
Finnish: fi dekabristi dekabristi-
French: fr décembriste
Italian: it decabrista
Polish: pl dekabrystowski
Russian: ru декабри́стский
Spanish: es decembrista
References
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