Thread by @NoName03244467

In this thread, I will try to capture some political issues in tsarist Russia:
1. Stolypin's main supporters and his policies were right-wing, while his opponents were left-wing.
2. The right in Russia supported patriotism and were against non-Russian separatists.

The three main parts of the Russian right in Tsarist Russia can be called:
1. The Octobrists (conventionally right-wing liberals).
2. The All-Russian National Union (Russian Nationalists).
3. Black Hundreds (radical monarchists and Christian Orthodox)

Another interesting question is the attitude of the Russian right in tsarist Russia towards the Germans. I will also describe this topic a little. The sources will be at the end.

Stolypin, in fact, directly supported either right-wing liberals or nationalists and partly Black Hundreds; in turn, they also supported his agrarian and national policies, as well as the policy of combating leftist terrorists.

The first source is a good article in Russian about the Octobrist Party. They supported Stolypin, especially initially, and so did he:
sputnikipogrom.com/archive/octobe…

Here is my low-quality English translation of the article:
https : // telegra .ph/Octobrists-the-pro-government-party-of-a-healthy-person-03-27

The Octobrists' opponents were the Cadets. But they were a left-liberal party, they often defended leftist terrorists and essentially abandoned the protection of private property rights. Quote from a Russian historian:

"In the spring of 1917, the only liberal party that mattered was the Cadet Party. But the Cadets were a left-liberal party. This party had its own peculiarities — the inviolability of private property was not spelled out in the Cadet program."

"The Cadets advocated an 8-hour working day, the alienation of part of the landowner's land to the peasants for a reasonable price, but not for the inviolability of private property."

Associate Professor of the Department of Russian History of the XIX — early XX century, Faculty of History of Moscow State University and Doctor of Historical Sciences Fyodor Gaida, full text of the interview:
vatnikstan.ru/history/gaida/

The next party is the All-Russian National Union (the Party of Russian Nationalists). A good source in Russian about them (they were obviously also behind Stolypin):
stolypin.ru/proekty-fonda/…

Some quotes about this party:
"The nationalists warmly supported the Stolypin agrarian law. Covering their activities in the Third Duma, they took credit for defending it together with the Octobrists in front of the left, which advocated more radical measures."

"The nationalists, considering the community to be a source of poverty for the peasantry, were convinced that the leftists sought to preserve it as an "enzyme of revolutionary fermentation.""

"The nationalists saw in the latter an unacceptable violation of the inviolability of private property, the lag of which was one of the points of their program."

"It was under the banner of the struggle for the inviolability of private property that the nationalists defended the Stolypin agrarian law."

"In fact, Stolypin's agrarian reform was supported not only by nationalists and Octobrists, but also by many extreme right-wingers, due to the social composition of all these factions."

"In the landowner environment, as A. Ya. Avrekh noted, "the idea of small peasant land ownership as the antithesis of communal land ownership" arose even before the revolution of 1905."

"It is noteworthy that P. N. Balashov in June 1906, in a note to the tsar, outlined proposals that coincided with Stolypin's agrarian program."

Sankova S. N. The Russian Party in Russia: formation and activity of the All-Russian National Union (1908-1917). Orel: S. V. Zenina, 2006. pp. 155-156.

Here is my poor-quality English translation of some quotes from the historian's work on this party:
https : // telegra. ph/All-Russian-National-Union-VNU--SM-Sankova-03-27

Now the question concerns the attitude of the Russian right of towards the Germans. It was difficult: on the one hand, they recognized the usefulness, loyalty and Russian patriotism of Russian Germans. On the other hand, Germany and Austria were Russia's national enemies.

There is a good, but somewhat politically biased and emotional article about this in Russian.:
https: // telegra. ph/Rasovyj-vopros-v-russkom-monarhizme-germanizm-i-rusofobiya-sprava-08-25
I won't translate it, but I'll give you some quotes.

"In every article about foreigners, I insist that there is a certain percentage of Russians who are loyal to Russia and even more patriotic than the Russians themselves. They are most often found among Russified Germans." (M. Menshikov. "Letters to the Russian Nation").

Menshikov was one of the important ideologists of the All-Russian National Union

Russian colonel Fyodor Vinberg, an ultramonarchist, wrote:
"The policy of the Russian Tsars, who recruited Germans into the Russian civil service, was deeply reasonable and highly patriotic. "

The same thing was written by the historian-Slavist Yuri Slezkin about the attitude of the Russian right in tsarist Russia to the Russian Germans.

This is, of course, a very general overview of the politics of the right in tsarist Russia. But I hope I've given you a general idea of it. Thanks for attention.

I will also add some other questions. Translation about the attitude of the Russian right in the Empire to gender relations:
https: // telegra. ph/The-attitude-of-the-Russian-empire-right-wing-to-the-womens-quastion-03-28

It is also interesting to mention the political views of Nicholas 2 and Ivan Ilyin:
https: // telegra. ph/About-Nicholas-2-and-Ivan-Ilyin-03-28