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Marks the beginning of the nineteenth-century revolutionary movement
in Russia |
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It contained within it the seeds of different political and
ideological trends that would develop more fully in the future: from
conservative and liberal to ultra-revolutionary |
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The Decembrists were revered as martyrs |
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The ideals and example of the aristocratic revolutionaries continued
to inspire later generations of reformers, radicals, and
revolutionaries alike |
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The crushing of the Decembrists removed from active public life a
whole generation of the country’s most talented, educated, and
honest people |
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Russia’s evolution along the Western European path to a
constitutional, law-governed state was delayed considerably |
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The growing alienation of the educated minority from the state |
