Conservatives or Radicals? Right-wing factions in the final years of the Russian Empire

George Gilbert

This paper will examine the radical right in the Russian Empire between 1900 and 1914.

In particular, it will consider whether the groups that emerged can be more usefully considered to be radicals or conservatives, and what the appearance of these groups tell us about the instability of the Tsarist regime and the wider crisis in Russian conservatism in the years immediately preceding the First World War.