TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - The Hyde Park rally of 9 march 1890: A British response to Russian atrocities JO - European review of history: Revue europeenne d'histoire A1 - Henderson, R. SP - 451 EP - 466 VL - 21 IS - 4 N2 - In December 1889 The Times carried a report detailing the killing of a group of Russian political exiles in Yakutsk, Siberia. Public outrage at this atrocity was compounded two months later with news of the flogging and suicide of female political prisoners in another Siberian penal colony. These events sparked a series of international protests, and the British reaction culminated in a march and rally in Hyde Park. This article examines the causes and timing of this outburst of militancy and draws attention to the wide range of organisations and individuals who were responsible for the growth of support within Britain for the cause of the Russian ant-tsarist opposition. Drawing on Russian and British archival documents and contemporary press reports, it throws fresh light on the Siberian events themselves as well as on the convergence in London of a range of disparate political groupings determined to show a unified front in support of their Russian brethren. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.
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