Constitutional Democratic Party
The Constitutionally-Democratic Party ( Russian Конституционно-демократическая партия , Konstituzionno-demokratitscheskaja partija ) and cadets ( кадеты, kadety ), were an early 20th century in the Russian Duma active moiety. After their abbreviation KD, they were also known as cadets . Politically, they were close to liberal ideas.
In the first State Duma , elected as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905 , the party made up the largest parliamentary group with 37% of the MPs. This was also due to the fact that the left parties boycotted the election. After Tsar Nicholas II dissolved the Duma just a few months after its opening, some members of the party signed the Vyborg Manifesto , which called for people to refuse to pay taxes and to refuse military service. After the February Revolution of 1917 , the Cadets appointed Prince Lvov, Russia's first democratically legitimized Prime Minister. Party leader Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov became foreign minister of the Provisional Government . In the Miliukov Note , he promised the Western Allies, England and France, that World War I would continue at their side. This and the lack of land reform in favor of the peasants cost the party its earlier broad support in the further course of the revolution. In the elections to the Constituent Assembly , she received only 17 seats.
When this on 5./6. When it met in January 1918, the Cadet Party was already banned. On November 28, 1917, the Bolsheviks , who had ruled since the October Revolution , declared it a "party of enemies of the people " and Lenin decreed the arrest of their leaders. With the simultaneous decline of the Social Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks , the multi-party system in Soviet Russia disappeared .
Well-known representatives of the Cadets include Miljukow and Prince Lwow Vladimir Dmitrijewitsch Nabokow , Nikolai Wissarionowitsch Nekrasow and Mykola Wassylenko .
literature
- Stephen J. Lee: Lenin and Revolutionary Russia . Routledge. 2003
