People of the Revolution and the USSR
Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)
Background: Russia
The old regime and its challengers 1905–1917
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GlossaryConstitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)
- Sergei Andreevich Muromtsev Сергей Андреевич Муромцев The Roman law scholar and Kadet leader who chaired Russia's first constitutional parliament
- Fyodor Izmailovich Rodichev Фёдор Измайлович Родичев Kadet orator who branded the gallows 'Stolypin's necktie'
- Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov Георгий Евгеньевич Львов A scion of Rurik, the Empire's last liberal premier
- Nikolai Mikhaylovich Kishkin Николай Михайлович Кишкин The Kadet minister named special plenipotentiary to save Petrograd on the day of the October Revolution
- Pyotr Berngardovich Struve Пётр Бернгардович Струве From Marxism through liberalism to conservative anti-Bolshevism: the thinker who traced the arc of a Russian intelligentsia
- Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov Александр Иванович Коновалов The capitalist who gave his workers a nine-hour day and built the Progressive Bloc to challenge the autocracy
- Viktor Nikolayevich Pepelyaev Виктор Николаевич Пепеляев The Kadet politician who engineered Kolchak's dictatorship and stood with him to the end
- Nikolai Vasilyevich Ustryalov Николай Васильевич Устрялов Founder of National Bolshevism, the exile who saw the Bolsheviks turning into Russian state-builders