The All-Russian Union of Landowners and Farmers (Russian: Всероссийский союз земельных собственников и землевладельцев) was a right-wing party in Russia. At the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Union of Landowners mobilized resistance to soviets and sought to defend private ownership of estates.[1]
The party began taking shape in 1916, as different landowners' groups across the country began to seek building a new national organization.[2] A constituent national congress of the party was held in Moscow on May 20, 1917, with over 300 delegates (both nobles and peasants) from 31 provinces.[3][4] Using the term 'constituent', the organization sought to distance itself from its 1905 predecessor.[4] A new council of the Union of Landowners, with N. N. L'vov as its chairman, was established.[4]
The party contested the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. Per the account of Lenin, which includes votes from 54 constituencies, the party obtained some 215,000 votes.[5]
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- ^ Rosenberg, William G. (1974). Liberals in the Russian Revolution. p. 154. ISBN 9780691100234.
- ^ Haynes, Mike. Was There a Parliamentary Alternative in Russia in 1917?
- ^ Donald J. Raleigh (1986). Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov. Cornell University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8014-1790-0.
- ^ a b c Matthew Rendle (5 November 2009). Defenders of the Motherland: The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia. OUP Oxford. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-19-160801-8.
- ^ Lenin, V. I.. The Constituent Assembly Elections and The Dictatorship of the Proletariat