Its leaders were comprised of military officers who had absorbed liberal Western ideas during the Napoleonic wars, and wished to see similar reforms in their Russian homeland.
Its leaders were comprised of military officers who had absorbed liberal Western ideas during the Napoleonic wars, and wished to see similar reforms in their Russian homeland. Though they advocated  representative democracy and human rights, an overall lack of civilian support doomed the uprising. They persuaded several regiments to demand Constantine be crowned, but the rebels were poorly organized due to the confusion surrounding the succession of Alexander I. FTP, what rebellion did Nicholas I crush in 1825?
Its leaders were comprised of military officers who had absorbed liberal Western ideas during the Napoleonic wars, and wished to see similar reforms in their Russian homeland.
the Decembrist Uprising