THE STATE DUMA OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE: THE KADETS AND ISSUES OF ECONOMIC MODERNISATION IN RUSSIA

The focus of the article is on the activities of the Party of People's Freedom (the
Kadets Party) at Imperial Duma I to IV. It gives the analysis of the party's position on
the issues of economic modernisation in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
The article also deals with the problem of collaboration between the opposition and
the authorities as well as the conflict between the advocates of revolutionary and evolutionary
ways of the state development.