Union of liberation

The first decade of the twentieth century was the time of self -determination of many social forces and a colossal request for political changes, the time of searching for the future, numerous software installations and the formation of party organizations. The new book of Kirill Solovyov is dedicated to the liberal opposition in Russia on the eve and during the first Russian revolution of 1905. We are talking about the forms of the political action of the opposition in the conditions of the autocracy - and that part that was not ready for direct violence and at the same time counted on the final success. In 1905, its leaders (Peter Struve, Evgeny Trubetskoy, Alexander Kizvetter, Ekaterina Kuskova, Nikolai Kareev, Mikhail and Sergey Sabashnikov, Nikolai Guchkov, Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vernadsky and others) felt among the winners who had contributed to the evolution of the political regime . Kirill Soloviev - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the School of Historical Sciences of the Faculty of Humanitarian NIU Higher School of Economics, specialist in the political history of Russia XIX - early XX centuries