Word: stolypin
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...holding balls for descendants of the old nobility reflects an intense nostalgia for a Russia long gone, a monarchist age that appears as full of sunlight and promise for the Slavophiles as it was dark and despairing for the communists. The traditionalists take inspiration from prerevolutionary conservatives like Pyotr Stolypin, the assassinated Prime Minister of Czar Nicholas II, who dismissed his radical opponents with the curt dictum, "They need a great upheaval; we need a great Russia...
...archival material, particularly at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has now expanded the text by some 300 pages. Much of the additional material concerns the evil (in Solzhenitsyn's view) activities of Lenin during Russia's hasty entrance into World War I, and the heroic (ditto) career of Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister under Czar Nicholas II who was assassinated in 1911 by an anarchist named Dmitri Bogrov. Translated by Harry T. Willetts, this version is essentially a brand-new work...
...person in this novel whom you obviously admire greatly is ((Russian Prime Minister Pyotr)) Stolypin. How would you summarize his role in Russian history...
...European context, called him a conservative. Actually, he was a liberal. He thought that before creating civil society, we had to create the citizen, and therefore before giving the illiterate peasant all sorts of rights, you had to elevate him economically. This was a very constructive idea. Stolypin was, without doubt, the major political figure in Russian 20th century history. And when the revolution occurred, it was the free democratic regime of February 1917 that abolished all his reforms and went back to square...
...years, we have been destroying everything in our country, the life of the people, its biological, ecological, moral and economic basis. Naturally, people look to the past for some point of support, some constructive idea. Now people are looking here and there and finally coming across Stolypin's reforms and how he dealt with the peasantry...