Trudoviks

Trudoviks was moderate Labour party in early 20th Century Russia. This was a moderate yet small workers party compared to the vast number of extreme revolutionary and anarchist groups. It was deemed more intellectual and politically ideological than the other groups hence it had limited success as a political movement when the massess were in a state of all out anarchy against all authority during the autocratic dictatorship of the Tsars.

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Labour - Russia

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Little is known about this party as it was one of hundreds of small workers cirlces that sprang up around Russia in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution which although did not remove the Tsar it certainly curtalied his power but not to the extent of the democratic, liberal society for which the Russian masses longed for. Thus the party survived but remained small

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The party is best known for winning seats in the State Duma, a national assembly created by Tsar Nicholas II in the atermath of the 1905 Revolution. A leading member of the party was Alexander Kerensky, a brilliant and enthusiastic liberal intellectual who eventually went on to become Prime minister of the Russian provisional Government following the February 1917 Revolution which toppled the Tsar and the russian monarchy

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Duma - Nicholas II - Alexander Kerensky

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