|
Party's Name |
Main Aims |
Support Base |
|
Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party
(1898) |
minimum: overthrow of autocracy maximum:
proletarian revolution |
radically minded intelligentsia |
|
Socialist Revolutionary Party (1901) |
Socialisation of all privately owned land |
small owners: peasants, town-dwellers, artisans,
small traders |
|
Constitutional democratic Party;
Kadets (1905) |
a new order on the Western constitutional model |
liberal intelligentsia, part of liberal-minded
landowners and bourgeoisie, the professions |
|
Union of 17 October: Octobrists (1905) |
constitutional monarchy |
big industrial and financial bourgeoisie, the new
business class |
|
Union of the Russian People (1905) |
preservation of the autocratic system |
big landowners, merchants, shopkeepers, the
police, the clergy, lower middle class in towns, wealthy peasants |
