Kadets

(kədyĕts`), members of the Russian Constitutional Democratic party. Founded in 1905, the Kadets sought a constitutional government that would guarantee universal suffrage, freedom of speech, a popularly elected legislature, an independent judiciary, and a system of social welfare. They formed the majority party in the first dumaduma
, Russian name for a representative body, particularly applied to the Imperial Duma established as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905. The parliamentary organization of 1906, largely the work of Count Witte, provided for a state council (an upper house, with some
..... Click the link for more information. and dominated the cabinet of the provisional government established in Mar., 1917. They were increasingly overshadowed by other groups, especially the Bolsheviks (see under Bolshevism and MenshevismBolshevism and Menshevism
, the two main branches of Russian socialism from 1903 until the consolidation of the Bolshevik dictatorship under Lenin in the civil war of 1918–20.
..... Click the link for more information. ) and the Socialist Revolutionaries, so that the Kadets received less than 5% of the vote in elections to the Constituent Assembly. Before the Assembly met, however, the Bolsheviks seized power and declared (Dec., 1918) the Constitutional Democratic party to be illegal and arrested some of the Kadets.

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The "populist socialists" drew 1,367 (0.39%), the Mensheviks 4,179 (1.2%), the Bolsheviks 28,614 (8.2%), other socialists 10,797 (3.1%), the Kadets 19,050 (5.4%), various "national lists" 49,018 (14%--no ethnic breakdown is available), and right-wing groups 6,317 (1.8%).

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He is equally fascinated by the verbal fisticuffs, the debates and arguments at the epicentre between Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, Kadets, Kerenskyites and Bolsheviks.

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In short, Stolypin sought to find a middle ground and to practice an Aristotelian discernment to navigate between, on the one hand, the radical communists and the Kadets, and, on the other hand, the obtuse conservatism of some aristocrats blind to the dangers awaiting Russia, while remaining a man of his era.

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When the Soviets joined the allied forces, Feliks was set free and he travelled to Iran and Palestine where he joined the School for Kadets and trained to serve in the Polish Air Force, fighting alongside the British.

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In assessing anti-bourgeois sentiment among the liberal Kadet party, Dowler concludes that "the Kadets' fondness for peasant communalism tied them to the non-liberal left and posed a major obstacle to an alliance with their natural allies in the center of the political spectrum" (p.