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1917 Odessa City Duma election

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The first meeting of the newly elected municipality took place on 23 August 1917. The Kadet mayor Braikevich held an inaugural speech on behalf of the Public Committee He addressed a welcoming speech on behalf of the Public Committee and the City Soviet. The 23 August 1917 meeting elected a new city
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However, slightly different accounts on the seat distribution exist. Per Guthier (1990) Russian socialists won 77 seats, Kadets 15 seats, Jewish parties 14 seats, Ukrainian parties 5 seats and other parties 9 seats. Per Vintskovs'kyi (2015), the new City Duma had 68 seats were won by the SRs, 15 for
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The newly elected City Duma differed markedly from its predecessor. None of the City Duma members elected in 1913 managed to get re-elected. About two thirds of the newly elected City Duma belonged to the intelligentsia. The share of Jewish deputies in the City Duma increased significantly. And for
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and representatives of the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers, Officers and Peasants Deputies. The election commission ordered that 56 polling stations be set up across the city, and that polling stations would be open between 09.00 am and 09.00 pm on the day of the vote. 315,502 residents of Odessa were
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On 16 April 1917 the new regulations for municipal elections were issued by the Provisional Government. The new regulations abolished the property and taxation requirements for voting. For the first time, suffrage was equal between men and women. Voting age was set at 20 years. Military servicemen
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issued a public call for 'peace and order' in the city. Around 7–8 March 1917 mayor Pelikan, deputy mayor L. Mechnikov, city board member Albrand, police chief Hirschfeld, the prison chief Pereshin and nine other individuals were arrested. Colonel V.I. Yesaulov took charge as acting mayor, and
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The list of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, List No. 19, received the highest number of votes. 60% of adult population of Odessa participated. List 19 (SR) got some 105,000 votes. The Kadets mustered some 26,000 votes Kadets, some 23,000 votes for Jewish Bloc, some 13,000 votes for the
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The election campaign took place in a heated political climate. The Kadets, whom the SRs had flagged as 'bourgeois', had several of their campaign offices vandalized. The Ukrainian List raised the slogan "Vote for us to anger the bourgeoisie!". The
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the Kadets (and a similar number of seats for the Jewish Bloc, who finished in third place), 7 for the Mensheviks, 5 for the Ukrainian Bloc, 4 Bolsheviks and 2 Monarchists. Per Feitelberg-Blank (2008) the SRs won 65 seats.
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A total of twenty-four candidate lists contested the election. The outcome of the Moscow City Duma election emboldened the SRs, and they opted to run for the Odessa City Duma without any alliance with moderate groups. The
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to run the affairs of urban governance of Odessa. The Public Committee gathered many different political tendencies - the liberal faction of the old City Duma, the City Union, the
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August 6] 1917. The election was part of a series of municipal elections across Russia that took place between the February and October revolutions of 1917. The
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were eligible to vote in local elections at sites of deployment. The Provisional Government fixed the size of the new Odessa City Duma to be elected at 120 seats.
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the first time, women were elected to the City Duma – one Kadet (listed on third place on the Kadet list) and one SR (listed on the 56th place on the SR list).
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Announcement of the Union of Land Owners of South Russia calling for a vote for the People's Freedom Party (i.e. Kadets), published on front page of
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In June 1917 the Polish Workers' Union in Odessa split into two groups - the Polish Socialist Workers Union (linked to the
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won a landslide victory in Odessa. The Odessa City Duma continued to play an important role until the end of 1917.
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Menshevik-Bund list, some 7,000 votes for the Ukrainian List and some 4,500 votes for the Bolsheviks.
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together with democratic forces set up the Odessa Public Committee - which was authorized by the
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On 26 August 1917 the Public Committee dissolved itself and handed over power to the City Duma.
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I͡Uriĭ Markovych Hamret͡sʹkyĭ; Instytut istoriï (Akademii͡a nauk Ukraïnsʹkoï RSR) (1987).
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rumours of a counter-revolutionary plot in Odessa emerged. On 4 March 1917 mayor
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The special election commission for the City Duma vote included new city mayor
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was elected as the city new mayor. He was a well-known publicist, engineer,
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The Union of Land Owners decided to call for support to the Kadet list.
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and the General Jewish Labour Bund fielded a joint list. Likewise, the
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on their hand raised the slogan "We demand a truce on all fronts!"
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case. He had joined the SR party in 1917. B.Y. Friedman and
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contested jointly on the 'Ukrainian List' (List No. 2).
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Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920
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The five deputies elected from the Ukrainian List were
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Index

Odessa City Duma
uk
O.S.
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
February Revolution
Boris Aleksandrovich Pelikan
Russian Provisional Government
Zemstvo
Military Industrial Committee
Romanian Front
Odessa Steering Committee
uk
Sergey Shelukhin
uk
Ivan Lutsenko
uk
Kadets
Mensheviks
General Jewish Labour Bund
Mikhail Braikevich
ru
Anton Borynevich
uk

Odesskie Novosti
ru
Menshevik
Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party
Bolsheviks

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