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Octobrist
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Octobrist [ɒkˈtəʊbrɪst]
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(Historical Terms) a member of a Russian political party favouring the constitutional reforms granted in a manifesto issued by Nicholas II in Oct. 1905
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The Octobrists are justly influential because they, more than any other body of critics, have produced challenging theories that attract academic writers.
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In countries where people once spent decades passively bound to a single institution or job, and typical success was a ritualized progression from Octobrists to Pioneers, to the Young Communist League and then the Party, this scale of instability and social dislocation is unprecedented.
We expected better: economic collapse and cultural confusion have ... by Maryniak, Irena / New Internationalist
However, once the finance ministry obtained credits in France (mentioned below) for the construction of the four dreadnoughts in the Baltic, the moderate right, the Octobrists, supported the tsar's wishes for shipbuilding.
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