The Carpatho-Russian Labour Party of Small Peasants and Landless (

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: Карпаторусская Трудовая Партия Малоземельных и Безземельных, ''Karpatorusskaja trudovaja partija malozemelnych i bezzemelnych'', ) was a

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centered in

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region, within the

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. It was founded in 1919. The party had a ' Greater Russian' orientation. It was led by

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, who was elected in 1924 to the parliament. The party published ''Russkaja zemlja''.Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), and Karl Bosl.
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: Oldenbourg, 1979. p. 233 The party contested the 1924, 1925 and 1935 elections in electoral coalitions with the Czechoslovak National Social Party. In 1929, the party joined the Russian National Bloc and contested elections as part of an electoral bloc led by the Czechoslovak National Democrats. The party advocated the

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. It was opposed to the

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and supported

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