The significance of the Decembrist uprising for Russian society.

The uprising of the Decembrists in 1825 was preceded by a great deal of work to create a Northern and Southern society, a stormy discussion of liberal trends in Europe and the results of the French Revolution. The economic backwardness of Russia, social inequality and the class of Russian society did not allow liberal ideas to penetrate deeply into the masses. The carriers of revolutionary thoughts and ideas were only the advanced representatives of the nobility and the intelligentsia, the lower classes of society were aloof from their actions. Despite the fact that the uprising failed, it shook the entire Russian society. The ruling class, led by the tsar, was forced to study the ideas proposed by the Decembrists, and later partially use them in their reforms. Despite the reaction that followed the suppression of the uprising, Russia began to awaken from age-old backwardness. Free-thinking writers appear: Lermontov, Pushkin, Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Ogarev. The literary circle of Petrashevsky arose, where Dostoevsky, Saltykov – Shchedrin, Belinsky and other progressive writers took part. The main idea of ​​the advanced liberal nobility and intelligentsia is to promote revolutionary ideas not only in the upper strata of society, but also to educate the lower classes and prepare them for future revolutionary actions.