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Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Гучко́в; 14 October 1862 – 14 February 1936) was a Russian politician, Chairman of the Third Duma and Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Guchkov was a statesman and leader of the moderate liberal political movement in Russia between 1905 and 1917. The son of a wealthy Moscow merchant, Guchkov studied at the universities of Moscow and Berlin, traveled widely, fought against the British in the South African (Boer)
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Alexander Guchkov was war minister in the Provisional Government until May 1915, when he was replaced by Kerensky. Before his departure he delivered a speech on the fate of Russia and her government, suggesting that it was at the “edge of an abyss”:
the Russian Empire was Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (1862-'%....~ 1936). A political biography of Guchkov, whose career in the national limelight-in the legislature (the State Duma), in the war-indus-tries committees during World War I, and in 1917 in the Provisional Gov-ernment-was central to the story of the collapse of the old order, is long
Alexander Guchkov was born in Moscow, Russia on 14th October, 1862. He was a major industrialist and in 1907 was elected to the Duma. Guchkov advocated political reform and became leader of the Octobrist Party. Later he became a leading figure in the Constitutional Democratic Party (Cadets).
Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (1862-1936) served as leader of the Octobrist Party in the wake of the 1905 Russian Revolution, and was a moderate figure arguing in favour of constitutional reform prior to and during World War One.
May 22, 2023 · Aleksandr Guchkov is a well-known figure of Russian politics from the first two decades of the 20 th century. However, his activities in exile have not been thoroughly studied. Among the myriad of engagements against the Soviet regime in the 1920s–1930s that Guchkov planned, the Conradi-Polunin Process (May–November 1923) in Lausanne stands out.
