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 The State Duma, also known as the Imperial Duma, was the lower house of the Governing Senate in the Russian Empire, while the upper house was the State Council. It held its meetings in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It convened four times ...

and 48 in the Fourth. Its most prominent members were Ivan Nikolaevich Efremov, Aleksandr Konovalov, and

Pavel Ryabushinsky Pavel Pavlovich Ryabushinsky (russian: Па́вел Па́влович Рябуши́нский) (17 June 1871, Moscow – 19 July 1924, Cambo-les-Bains), was a Russian entrepreneur and liberal politician. Early life Ryabushinsky was born into ...

. In the last two Dumas the Progressists entered into a coalition with the

Constitutional Democrats ) , newspaper = ''Rech'' , ideology = ConstitutionalismConstitutional monarchismLiberal democracyParliamentarism Political pluralismSocial liberalism , position = Centre to centre-left , international = , colours ...

, and in the Fourth Duma they were part of the

Progressive Bloc (Russia) The Progressive Bloc was an alliance of political forces in the Russian Empire and occupied 236 of the 442 seats in the Imperial Duma. It was formed when the State Duma of the Russian Empire was recalled to session during World War I, the respons ...

. After the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

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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