THE STATE DUMA

The Duma was instituted to represent the voices of working people in 1905. As Lenin launched his revolution, its seats were occupied as follows:

Trudoviks – 10 seats The Labour Group or ‘Trudoviks’ were a breakaway from the Socialist Revolutionaries, since the SR had refused to participate in the Duma. They were a moderate socialist party (the name ‘Trudovik’ meaning ‘labour’) that grew out of small worker collectives. Bolsheviks – 15 seats Lenin’s faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party was committed to the overthrow of the Tsarist autocracy and the redistribution of power to the proletariat. Unlike the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks still believed that a small ruling elite was necessary. Progressists – 41 seats The Progressive Party consisted of moderate liberals who believed the time was right for the bourgeois, not the proletariat, to assume control of Russia. Two of the party’s prominent members would go on to be part of the Provisional…

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