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
- 5 The launching of the Liberation Movement
- 6 The organization of public opinion
- 7 The intelligentsia in ascendency
- 8 The formation of the Union of Liberation
- 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
8 - The formation of the Union of Liberation
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
- 5 The launching of the Liberation Movement
- 6 The organization of public opinion
- 7 The intelligentsia in ascendency
- 8 The formation of the Union of Liberation
- 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 prolonged polemics in the pages of Osvobozhdeniye on questions of programme and organization, prepared the ground for a decision on these issues. For that purpose the founding-fathers of the Liberation Movement convened a conference ‘out of the reach of the tsarist police’. It was held at Schaffhausen, a Swiss town nearby Lake Constance, on 20–22 July (2–4 August) 1903 and was attended by twenty-one people. They represented between them the leadership of two out of the three main groups composing the radical–constitutionalist nucleus of the movement. (The leaders of the Russkoye Bogatstvo group did not participate.) The radical–democratic intelligentsia was represented by N. A. Berdyayev, V. Ya. Bogucharskiy, S. N. Bulgakov, S. L. Frank, B. A. Kistyakovskiy, E. D. Kuskova, S. N. Prokopovich and P. B. Struve. (All of these had in the past belonged to the Marxist camp for shorter or longer periods.) The zemstvo radicals were represented by Prince Peter D. Dolgorukov, N. N. Kovalevskiy, N. N. Lvov, I. I. Petrunkevich, F. I. Rodichev, Prince D. I. Shakhovskoy, V. I. Vernadskiy and D. E. Zhukovskiy. Of the remaining five delegates there were three who apparently represented the academic liberal–constitutionalist circles of the two capitals, I. M. Grevs (Professor of History at St Petersburg University); S. A. Kotlyarevskiy (Professor of Law at the University of Moscow); P. I. Novgorodtsev (Professor of Philosophy at the same university), and A. S. Petrunkevich (ex-Countess Panin, Petrunkevich's wife) and V. V. Vodovozov.
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- The Liberation Movement in Russia 1900–1905 , pp. 177 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1973