Southern Society

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Southern Society was a secret revolutionary organization of Russian officers in the early 19th century that sought to overthrow autocracy and implement liberal reforms.

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instanceOf clandestine group
political organization
secret revolutionary organization
activeInCentury 19th century
activeInPeriod early 19th century
aimedAt abolition of serfdom
equality before the law
introduction of civil rights
redistribution of land
classification underground political society
composedOf Russian army officers
conspiredFor military uprising against the Tsar
country Russian Empire
dissolvedAfter Decembrist revolt
surface form: Decembrist revolt of 1825
documentAuthored Russkaya Pravda
foundedBy Pavel Pestel
goal establishment of a representative form of government
implementation of liberal reforms
overthrow of autocracy in the Russian Empire
historicalRegion Right-bank Ukraine
southern Russia
surface form: Southern Russia
ideology constitutionalism
liberalism
republicanism
influencedBy European Enlightenment ideas
Napoleonic Wars experience of officers
language Russian
leader Pavel Pestel
location Kiev region NERFINISHED
Tulchin
Ukraine
memberOf Decembrist revolt
surface form: Decembrist movement
membershipType exclusive to commissioned officers
movement Russian revolutionary movement
notableMember Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin
Pavel Pestel
Sergei Muravyov-Apostol
opposedTo Tsarist autocracy
serfdom
organizationalStructure secret cells
partOf Southern Society of the Decembrists
surface form: Decembrist organizations
programBasedOn Russkaya Pravda
relatedEvent Decembrist revolt
surface form: Decembrist revolt of 1825
relatedTo Northern Society
secret true
suppressedBy Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire
surface form: authorities of the Russian Empire
usedMethod conspiracy
military coup planning

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Decembrist revolt organizedBy Southern Society