By P. O'Meara
ISBN-10: 0230504604
ISBN-13: 9780230504608
ISBN-10: 0333984552
ISBN-13: 9780333984550
Russia's First Republican is designed to fill a spot within the historiography of the Decembrist circulate. The study performed in files and libraries in Russia, the united states, and the united kingdom has ended in the creation of a finished research of Pestel, the political activist and ideologue. It includes a reconstruction of his adolescence, an research of his function within the Decembrist mystery societies from 1816 to 1825, and an review of his ideological contribution to the early nineteenth-century Russian innovative circulation. specific consciousness is paid to his hugely unique venture for a Russian republic, Russian Justice.
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And indeed, not two months had elapsed before Kiselev did in fact volunteer an opinion on Pestel’s character, which he described angrily in a letter to Zakrevskii as ‘black as mud’. 38 The content of these evidently damaging reports is unfortunately not known. There was clearly something about Pestel’s character and behaviour that gave rise to ambivalent and conflicting perceptions of him. In a letter written some five weeks after his outburst to Zakrevskii, Kiselev was once again taking Pestel’s side, defensively rejecting the suggestion that Pestel’s ‘special qualities’ included self-seeking ambition.
He quite probably, therefore, ‘leaked’ his own report. And for the same reason it was decidedly ironic that Pestel was the liaison officer chosen for the delicate task of reporting to HQ on the contribution of Ypsilanti’s organisation, the ‘Society of Friends’ (Philiki Etaireia), to the Danubian unrest. We can reasonably assume that Pestel derived considerable interest from his assignment. ’29 He reported that the numbers claimed for Ypsilanti’s secret society equalled or even surpassed this figure.
27 Given Pestel’s own involvement at this time in the organisation of the Southern Society’s conspiracy, he would himself have had an obvious interest in covertly furthering its aims by ensuring that what he was reporting about the Greek conspiracy reached a wide audience. In addition, it suited his subversive political ambitions to give an exaggerated idea of the scale of the enterprise. He quite probably, therefore, ‘leaked’ his own report. And for the same reason it was decidedly ironic that Pestel was the liaison officer chosen for the delicate task of reporting to HQ on the contribution of Ypsilanti’s organisation, the ‘Society of Friends’ (Philiki Etaireia), to the Danubian unrest.
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