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Octoberist, -brist|ɒkˈtəʊb(ə)rɪst|
[f. October + -ist]
1. [After Septembrist.] (See quot.) nonce-wd.
1796Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 19 But in comes a gentleman in the fag end of October, dripping with the fogs of that humid and uncertain season... This is what the Octoberist says of the political interests of England.
2. (Chiefly in form Octobrist.)
a. [Russ. oktyabríst.] In Russian politics, a member of the League of the 17 October 1905 Old Style (30 October New Style), formed in response to the Imperial Constitutional Manifesto of the same date. Also attrib. or as adj.
1906Daily Chron. 10 Apr. 3/6 Count Peter Heyden, of the Octoberist party. 1906Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 2/2 One of the chief questions in Russia has been whether the Octobrists would join the Reactionaries or make terms with the Constitutional Democrats. 1912D. M. Wallace Russia (rev. ed.) xxxix. 738 The weak point in the present Assembly is that the Octobrists—the moderate party which accepts the famous October manifesto in its natural sense, and wishes to co-operate with the Government in legislative work—do not possess an absolute majority. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 14/3 The majority of the zemstva liberals found themselves on the side of the more left-wing Kadets, and only the minority among the Octobrists. a1967A. Ransome Autobiogr. (1976) xxii. 195 Pares was intimate with Gutchkov of the Octobrists.
b. [Russ. oktyabryónok.] A member of a Russian communist organization founded in 1925 for young people below the normal age of the ‘Pioneers’ (see pioneer n. 3 c).
1929S. N. Harper Civic Training in Soviet Russia iv. 66 A widening of the scope of the movement also came in 1925... The Pioneers were given the task of working among their younger brothers and sisters and of organizing them into groups of ‘Little Octobrists’, in honour of the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917. 1935S. & B. Webb Soviet Communism I. v. 401 The Pioneers were given the task of bringing their younger brothers and sisters, as young as eight years old, into groups of Little Octobrists. By 1926 the two junior organisations had over two million members (1,800,000 Pioneers and 250,000 Octobrists). 1959D. W. Treadgold 20th Cent. Russia III. xviii. 288 The Little Octobrists for children eight to eleven years of age, the Pioneers..and the Komsomol..were together designed to produce adults who accepted the fundamental ideological commitments and values of the Party proper. 1960A. Kassof in C. E. Black Transformation Russ. Society v. 485 The Octobrists..includes members from seven through nine years of age. Ibid. 496 Of particular significance was the recent decision to re-establish the Octobrists for children younger than Pioneer age. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipel. I. i. viii. 333 It was just such a well⁓nourished little imp that our Octobrist child—Law—began to grow. |