Character: I. Mironov

Members of the southern (and Northern) society feared that in case of active participation of the people in the revolution they won't be able to stop the raging element of the revolution that it will perelistnut a framework by which they sought to protect her. The Decembrists wanted to carry out a revolution for the people but without the people.

Kriitika the feudal system and the reactionary policy of tsarism brought the front part of the nobility on the path of political, and then armed struggle against the autocracy. The main purpose of a secret society at all stages of its ten-year history was the elimination of the autocracy and serfdom. The Decembrists attached great importance to the development of the constitutional project, which identified the main foundations of the future state structure of Russia.

Before the Decembrists, who had returned from the liberation of Foreign campaigns, feudal Russia appeared in all its ugliness. The plight of serfs, war-ravaged and exposed to excessive exploitation of the landlords, drill, and cane discipline in the army, the decline of industry and Commerce, the absolute power of officials and injustice of the people - all this, according to P. I. Pestel merged into the overall picture of the "people's blagodenstviya"

Patriotic war of 1812 aroused the consciousness of the advanced officer youth and played a huge role in shaping the revolutionary world Outlook of the future Decembrists. They were ardent patriots barely came the "storm of the twelfth year", as many of them joined the army, became participants of the decisive battles of the war of 1812 and the liberation campaign of 1813, passed the way from Borodino to Paris.

The performance of the Decembrists was not an event isolated from the world social development - it was part of the struggle of the peoples of Europe against the feudal-absolutist system. Suffice it to recall the Great French revolution 1789-1793 years, revolution of the early 1820-ies in Spain, Portugalia, Naples.

The Decembrist movement emerged in the conditions of crisis of the feudal-serf system in Russia and served as one of the manifestations of this crisis. It was generated by socio-economic and political contradictions of Russian life in the first half of the nineteenth century. Not crushing the old order, it was impossible to move along the path of bourgeois development.

The Decembrists were the color of Russia. Many of them received an excellent education. Among the Decembrists were highly talented people, including having the gift of writing. Therefore, the memories and letters of the Decembrists convey their thoughts and intentions, not only reveal their activities and struggles, but also give a broad picture of social life in Russia, convey to us the living language of the time.