单词 | octobrist |
释义 | Octobristn.adj. Russian History A. n. 1. A member of the Union of 17 October, a political movement originally forming the moderate faction in the Imperial Duma and supporting the Imperial Constitutional Manifesto of October 1905; (also) a member of any of the political groups that later developed from this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > member of specific association Octobrist1906 1906 Times 24 Mar. 7/3 Already the Octobrists are discussing the advisability of a coalition with the Constitutional Democrats. 1912 D. M. Wallace Russia (rev. ed.) xxxix. 738 The weak point in the present Assembly is that the Octobrists..do not possess an absolute majority. 1958 Times 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. a1967 A. Ransome Autobiogr. (1976) xxii. 195 Pares was intimate with Gutchkov of the Octobrists. 1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iv. iv. 401 The Octobrists shared much of the Kadets' programme, but they saw themselves as moderate reformers. 2000 Slavic Rev. 59 861 The deputies of the Union of 17 October rejected by a very large majority (of over 100 deputies, if we include both the future ‘Zemstvo’ Octobrists and the ‘Right’ Octobrists) the resolutions adopted at the Octobrist conference organized by Guchkov. 2. A member of a Soviet communist organization founded in 1925 for young people below the normal age of the Pioneers (see pioneer n. 5b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > member of specific youth organization Octobrist1929 1929 S. N. Harper Civic Training in Soviet Russia iv. 66 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. 1951 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 16 143 When a Soviet child enters school and becomes an Octobrist..he is taught..to study and to imitate the life of the two deified leaders, Lenin and Stalin. 1960 A. Kassof in C. E. Black Transformation Russ. Society v. 485 The Octobrists..includes members from seven through nine years of age. 1999 Europe–Asia Stud. 51 1193 When they were elementary school pupils going through the rituals of acceptance into the Octobrists and Pioneers,..Gorbachev issued his programme for perestroika. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Octobrists. Also (rare): communist, revolutionary, inspired by the Russian October Revolution of 1917 (cf. October Revolution n. at October n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adjective] > relating to specific revolution Fructidorian1884 Octobrist1906 1906 Daily Chron. 10 Apr. 3/6 Count Peter Heyden, of the Octoberist party. 1943 Slavonic & East European Rev. Amer. Ser. 2 8 When, on November 18, a fourth, condensed version was presented, the Octobrist majority..decided to put an end to the matter. 1980 MERIP Rep. No. 89. 11 Bad luck brought the Khalq, ‘more Octobrist than October itself’. 1992 E. Acton Rethinking Russ. Revol. (BNC) The Octobrist leadership were broadly sympathetic to Stolypin's proposals for legal and administative changes. 1999 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 24/3 There she was: in her toddler's Octobrist uniform at camp on the Black Sea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1906 |
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