Activities of deputies from Grodno Province in the First State Duma of the Russian Empire
Keywords:
First State Duma of the Russian Empire, Grodno Province, deputies, political parties, national groups, Labourists, agrarian issueAbstract
The article examines the course of the elections of deputies to the First State Duma of the Russian Empire in the Grodno Province. It is emphasised that the course of the election campaign was influenced by both political and social, as well as national factors. The Constitutional Catholic Party of Lithuania and Belarus and the Polish kraevcy, who sought to maintain the economic and political influence of the Poles in the region, fought for the votes of Catholic electors. The Jewish population of towns and villages supported the Union for the Attainment of Full Rights for the Jewish People in Russia and Zionist organisations. The supporters of the Union of 17 October and the Constitutional Democratic Party were active in the province. At the provincial electoral assembly, which was held at the end of March 1906, the peasant electors managed to conclude an agreement on an alliance with the townspeople. The block of peasants and townspeople won the election. Peasant deputies, for whom the agrarian issue was the most important, joined the Labourists in the First State Duma of the Russian Empire. When discussing the agrarian issue, they favoured increasing peasant land use at the expense of landlords’ lands. The deputy M. Ya. Ostrogorskii, an authoritative scholar in the field of political and legal sciences, made a significant contribution to the development of the Order of the State Duma of the Russian Empire. Deputies from Grodno Province supported the bill on civil equality, which provided for the abolition of all national and confessional restrictions. The events of the Bialystok massacre, the consideration of which eventually influenced the decision to dissolve the First State Duma of the Russian Empire on 1906 July 8, came into focus.
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