The Progressive Party (russian: Прогрессивная партия), also sometimes known as the Progressists (russian: прогрессисты) was a group of moderate Russian liberals organized in 1912;
it had 25 deputies in the
Third Duma and 48 in the Fourth. Its most prominent members were
Ivan Nikolaevich Efremov,
Aleksandr Konovalov, and
Pavel Ryabushinsky. In the last two Dumas the Progressists entered into a coalition with the
Constitutional Democrats
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, newspaper = '' Rech''
, ideology = Constitutionalism Constitutional monarchismLiberal democracyParliamentarism Political pluralismSocial liberalism
, position = Centre to centre-left
, international =
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, and in the Fourth Duma they were part of the
Progressive Bloc (Russia). After the
February Revolution Efremov and Konovalov became part of the
Provisional Government
A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, or a transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of a newly formed state or f ...
.
References
Michael T. Florinsky (ed.), ''McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union'' (1961), pp. 455-6
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