Decembrist

From December +‎ -ist, a calque of Russian декабри́ст (dekabríst).[1]

Decembrist (plural Decembrists)

1. (historical) A participant in, or sympathizer with, the Decembrist revolt.
   • 1960, J. P. T. Bury, editor, The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume 10: The Zenith of European Power, Cambridge University Press, page 358:

     Thus on the death of Alexander I in 1825 the succession of his brother Nicholas I was delayed and confused by doubts over the heir and was marked by the bloody mutinies of the Decembrists; Nicholas died during the Crimean War when a contemporary wrote that his only choice was between abdication and death; his son, Alexander II, was assassinated by terrorists a quarter of a century later.

   • 2003, Catherine O'Neil, With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare, University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, page 81,

     Many of the Decembrists listed Pushkin's poetry as a source for their "free-thinking," and there were reports of frightened people (Pushkin himself was one of them) hastily burning unfinished poems that had circulated in manuscript.

   • 2009, Frank L. Kidner, Maria Bucur, Ralph Mathisen, Sally McKee, Theodore R. Weeks, Making Europe: People, Politics, and Culture, Volume II: Since 1550, Cengage Learning, page 587:

     These liberal revolutionaries, who have gone down in history as the Decembrists, called on the army not to swear allegiance to Nicholas. The Decembrist-led rebels were surrounded by troops loyal to Nicholas on the banks of the Neva River in St. Petersburg.

• Dekabrist

• Decembrism

Decembrist (not comparable)

1. According to or derived from the politics or philosophy of the Decembrists.
   • 1994, Lauren G. Leighton, Esoteric Tradition in Russian Romantic Literature: Decembrism and Freemasonry, Penn State University Press, page 17:

     The word civicism (grazhdanstvennost’) originated in the enlightenment ideal of civic Rome, perceptions of the poet as a patriotic citizen and son of the fatherland, and Decembrist dreams of a republic.

   • 2008, Kathryn B. Feuer, Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace, Cornell University Press, page 206:

     War and Peace grew out of Tolstoy's attempts to write a Decembrist novel, a work that first began to take shape in October 1856, when "The Distant Field" was begun.

   • 2006, “Trubnikova, Mariia (1835-1897)”, in Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi, editors, Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries, Central European University Press, page 584:

     Mariia Trubnikova was raised in an atmosphere of pious reverence for Decembrist ideals.