Union of Prosperity Союз благоденствия | |
|---|---|
 Decembrists at the Senate Square | |
| Abbreviation | UoP |
| Leader | Pavel Pestel |
| Presidium | Korennaya Uprava |
| Founder | Alexander Muravyov |
| Founded | 1818 |
| Dissolved | 1821 |
| Preceded by | Union of Salvation |
| Succeeded by | Northern Society Southern Society |
| Headquarters | Saint Petersburg |
| Membership | 200 |
| Ideology | Liberalism Abolitionism Constitutionalism (early) Republicanism (later) |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Movement | Decembrists |
The Union of Prosperity (Russian: Союз благоденствия, romanized: Soyuz blagodenstviya) or Union of Welfare was a larger secret society of the Decembrists, established in early 1818 on the basis of the dissolved Union of Salvation and contained the literary society, the Green Lamp.[1]
- ^ Bushkovitch, Paul (2012). A concise history of Russia. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54323-1.