The Peasant Union ( lt, Valstiečių sąjunga, VS) was a political party in

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

History

The party was formed by younger members of the

Lithuanian Democratic Party The Lithuanian Democratic Party ( lt, Lietuvių demokratų partija, LDP) was a political party in Lithuania The original party was established in 1902. It published newspapers ''Lietuvos ūkininkas'' (1905–1918) and ''Lietuvos žinios'' (1909� ...

following the

Revolution of 1905 The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...

.Vincent E McHale (1983) ''Political parties of Europe'', Greenwood Press, p. 481 When the LDP was finally dissolved in 1920, its remaining members joined the Peasant Union or the

Lithuanian Popular Socialist Democratic Party Lithuanian Popular Socialist Democratic Party ( lt, Lietuvos socialistų liaudininkų demokratų partija, LSLDP) was a political party in inter-war Lithuania. History The LSLDP was formed in 1917 in Voronezh by Mykolas Sleževičius and Felicija ...

(LSLDP), a 1917 breakaway. In the 1920 elections the party won 19 seats, becoming the third largest party in the

First Seimas First Seimas of Lithuania was the first parliament (Seimas) democratically elected in Lithuania after it declared independence on February 16, 1918. History The elections took place on October 10–11, 1922 to replace the Constituent Assembl ...

Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...

& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 1218 It formed a government alongside the Christian Democratic Bloc,McHale, p. 487 an alliance of the

Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party ( lt, Lietuvos krikščionių demokratų partija, LKDP) was a Christian-democratic political party in Lithuania. History Russian Empire and Republic of Lithuania A Christian Democratic movement was es ...

, the Labour Federation and the

Farmers' Association The Farmers' Association ( lt, Ūkininkų Sąjunga, ŪS) was a political party in inter-war Lithuania. Its leaders included Aleksandras Stulginskis, Vytautas Petrulis and Kazys Jokantas. A political party, established in 1989 under the same nam ...

. The 1922 elections saw the party win 14 seats, finishing second to the

. Shortly after the 1922 elections, on 24 November, the VS merged with the LSLDP to form the

Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union The Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union ( lt, Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sąjunga, LVLS) was a centre-left political party in Lithuania between 1922 and 1936. The party's leaders included the third President Kazys Grinius and three-term P ...

.McHale, p. 482

References

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