Mark-David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime. From the February Revolution to the July Days, 1917

The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime.
From the February Revolution to the July Days, 1917 (1990)
Glossary

Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de Mark-David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime. From the February Revolution to the July Days, 1917. London: MACMILLAN, Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd., in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham. 1st edition, 1983. Reprinted, 1990, 220 pp. + 10 pp. Une édition numérique réalisée par Marcelle Bergeron, bénévole, professeure retraitée de l'École polyvalente Dominique-Racine de Chicoutimi.

Glossary

All dates are given according to the Julian calendar, thirteen days behind the Western Gregorian calendar in the twentieth century.

census society the propertied classes and those members of the Intelligentsia that identified with them

chernorabochii literally, black worker; unskilled labourer

conciliator contemptuous term applied to the moderate socialists who argued that an alliance between the workers and peasants and census society was necessary for the survival of the revolution

defencist after February 1917, those socialists who argued that as a result of the revolution the war on Russia's part had ceased to be imperialist and that the people had a duty to support the military efforts of the Provisional Government to defend the revolution

duma elected municipal government

intelligent one earning (or looking forward to earning) a living in an occupation recruited chiefly from among those with a higher or at least secondary education; worker-intelligent – a self-taught worker with the educational equivalent of an intelligent

internationalist after February 1917, those socialists who argued that the war being waged by the Provisional Government continued to be imperialist and should be opposed; included Bolsheviks, Menshevik-Internationalists and Left SRs

Kadet Constitutional Democrat, member of Russia's liberal party

nizy literally, those on the bottom; the lower claws, the poor

revolutionary democracy (or democracy) the workers, peasants and soldiers and those members of the intelligentsia that identified with them

SR Social Revolutionary, member of Russia's peasant-oriented socialist party, successor to the nineteenth-century populists; in the autumn of 1917 the Left SRs (internationalists) officially formed a separate party

State Duma Russian 'parliament, won as a result of the 1905 revolution; its powers were narrow and the franchise upon which it was elected even move so, especially after the June 1907 coup d’état

TsIK All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers! and Soldiers' Deputies, elected at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in May-June 1917

verkhy literally, those on top; the wealthy and privileged