Author: Sojuz 17 Oktjabrja [ Octobrist Party ]
Title: Vozzvanie Sojuza 17 Oktjabrja
Description: Petersburg, [December 1905]. 31x23cm, 4 pp.. Caption-titled. Good. ¶ Appeal issued in December 1905 by the Union of October 17. ["The Octobrist Party was a non-revolutionary centrist Russian political party formally called Union of October 17. The party's program of moderate constitutionalism called for the fulfilment of Tsar Nicholas II's October Manifesto granted at the peak of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Founded in late October 1905, from 1906 the party was led by the industrialist Alexander Guchkov who drew support from centrist-liberal gentry, businessmen, and some bureaucrats. Unlike their immediate neighbors to the Left, Constitutional Democrats, the Octobrists were firmly committed to a system of constitutional monarchy. At the same time they emphasized the need for a strong parliament and a government that would be responsible to it. They were generally allied with the governments of Sergei Witte in 1905-1906 and Pyotr Stolypin in 1906-1911, but they criticized the government for taking extralegal measures and a slow pace of reforms, especially after the revolution ended in 1907 and they no longer saw the need for the extraordinary measures that they reluctantly supported in 1905-1907. The Octobrists' program included private farming and further land reform, which were in tune with Stolypin's program. They also supported the government in its unwillingness to grant political autonomy to ethnic minorities within the empire, although they generally opposed legal restrictions based on ethnicity and religion...." - wikipedia].

Keywords: Russian Political History, Octobrist Party, Liberal Liberals, Tsarist Russia, 1905 Revolution, Liberalism Politics, Constitutional, Monarchism, Octobrists, Union of 17 October