The response of the provincial advocacy to the revolutionary events of 1905-1907 (on the example of Irkutsk)
The article reveals the reactions and the basic forms of participation of the legal profession of Irkutsk in the revolutionary events of 1905-1907. The author defines the specificity of the social, political and corporate activities of the legal profession at every stage of the revolution, the causes of the rise or decline of activity of barristers and their assistants. On the basis of archival materials the article describes in detail the participation of the bar in the all-Russian October strike, the organization of urban self-defense groups, the establishment of the Department of the Constitutional Democratic Party.