title: Moscow Conspiracy of the Decembrists
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metadata.value: Belousov, Mikhail S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:13:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:13:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Belousov M. S. Moscow Conspiracy of the Decembrists. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 1, pp. 29–40.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9276
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article provides an insight into the important and crucial event in the history of the Decembrist
  Movement — the Moscow Conspiracy. This episode is related to one of the first planned
  attempts of the Decembrists on the life of an emperor. The subject has been widely covered by
  historiography; nevertheless, the question about the real motives for the regicide plan remains
  open. Research analysis reveals that even at the stage of investigation the government attempted
  at concealing the peasant causes of the Moscow Conspiracy. This effort, which can be traced
  in the report of the Committee of Inquiry, predetermined the perception of this issue by the
  pre-revolutionary historiography. The attempts to revise this tendency were made. For example,
  N. F. Lavrov tried to reconstruct the text of S. P. Trubetskoi’s letter and demonstrated that the conspiracy
  was caused by the peasant issues. However, the concept of the Russian history, developed
  under Stalin, changed the direction of the studies. Thus, M. V. Nechkina explicitly stated that the
  main objectives of the movement were the deposition of the autocracy and the abolition of serfdom.
  The idea of interpreting the Moscow Conspiracy as an attempted resistance of the nobility
  to the authorities’ plans to liberate the peasants would have become.This view prevailed both
  in the Soviet and foreign historiography for a long time. However, in the period of Perestroika
  S. V. Mironenko in his monograph comes up with the opposite view on this issue, arguing that
  the idea of regicide was related to Alexander I’s alleged plans of retiring to Warsaw and sending
  the Manifest on the Liberation of the Serfs from there. This opinion was supported by many
  scholars. Furthermore, two previously unknown primary sources, discovered by P. V. Il’in and
  T. V. Andreeva, indicate that the causes of the Moscow Conspiracy were rooted in the fact that
  in 1817 the Decembrists strongly objected to the idea of the immediate abolition of serfdom
  carried out exclusively by the decision of the supreme authorities.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the young
  PhDs no. МК-5578.2018.6 “The movement of the Decembrists: from historiography to historical memory”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Decembrists
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Decembrist Movement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Moscow Conspiracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. P. Trubetskoi
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Moscow Conspiracy of the Decembrists
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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