| Titre | The agrarian program of the Russian constitutional democrats | |
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| Auteur | Ingeborg Fleischhauer | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 10, no 2, avril-juin 1979 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 173-201 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Ingeborg Fleischhauer, The agrarian program of the Russian Constitutional Democrats.
The agrarian question was one of the most burning problems in Russian party and parliamentary struggle from 1905 to 1918. The various parties' standpoints in the agrarian question were indicative of how each party, once in power, would handle and eventually master the complex reality of rural Russia. The agrarian conception of the party of People's Freedom (Constitutional Democrats or Kadets) was based on vast and elaborate research material concerning Russia and the West gathered by its numerous specialists. If compared to those of other competing parties, it would seem that the Kadet agrarian program proved to have by far the most learned, skilful, and realistic foundations. The course that political events took in Russia, as well as Soviet historiography have deprived the Kadet agrarian endeavors of much of their significance. A re-evaluation shows, however, that the Kadet agrarian program and strategy were coherent in a way, and that the moderate radicalism of its demands (similar to those of German Social Democracy) forsaw an appropriate compromise formula for appeasing peasant's land needs while alienating private land under legal precautions. Had the program materialized, the Russian state's traditional land absolutism would have been superseded by the liberal land order of a rather medium and small estate farming, following the pattern of development in agriculturally advanced Western societies. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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