decembrists

Updated: May 27, 2025

Now, then, it happened that Representatives belonging to the party of order occasionally got under the clubs of the Decembrists. Nay, more.

Karl Marx - Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The haughty, dictatorial tone which had hitherto been used by superiors to their subordinates, and by all ranks of officials to the public, was replaced by one of considerate politeness. About the same time those of the Decembrists who were still alive were pardoned.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

The era of Nicholas I. was typically inaugurated by the bloody suppression of the Decembrists and their constitutional demands, proving as it subsequently did one continuous triumph of military despotism over the liberal movements of the age.

Simon Dubnow - History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II: From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander: III. (1825-1894)

As late as the end of 1851, Police Prefect Carlier vainly sought, in an exhaustive memorial, to move him to the real dissolution of the Decembrists. The "Society of December 10" was to remain the private army of Bonaparte until he should have succeeded in converting the public Army into a "Society of December 10."

Karl Marx - Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte