title: The Problem of Elections to the Crimean Regional Sejm during the Civil War
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metadata.value: Chemakin, Anton A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-02-02T11:36:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-02-02T11:36:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Chemakin А. А. The Problem of Elections to the Crimean Regional Sejm during the Civil War. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 3, рp. 636–654. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.305 (In Russian)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.305
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44762
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the failed elections to the Crimean Regional Sejm — the regional parliament
  of Crimea, which was to have been elected on April 6–8, 1919. The paper analyzes the
  course of the campaign, the features of the electoral law, and lists candidates from various political
  parties and national groups. The elections to the Sejm were a result of the compromise
  between the Constitutional Democrats and the Socialist Revolutionaries during the formation
  of the second Crimean regional government in the autumn of 1918. By the beginning of 1919,
  when the Red Army had approached the borders of Crimea, it became clear that it would be
  difficult to hold elections in the existing conditions. The issue of elections became one of the
  main factors of internal political instability in Crimea and caused the conflict between the
  liberal government, the socialist opposition, and the leadership of the White Movement. The
  election campaign was sluggish; absenteeism was predominant among most of the electorate
  (with the exception of Crimean Tatars), which was fueled by underground Bolshevik organizations
  actively campaigning for a boycott of the vote. Both the Constitutional Democrats, the
  Social Revolutionaries, and the Mensheviks understood all the risks associated with holding
  the elections under martial law, but they did not dare cancel them and deviate from democratic
  principles, although it was quite clear that the workers’ and peasants’ masses of Crimea
  did not need any Sejm. The vote was postponed (and actually canceled) only on April 1, 1919,
  after the Soviet military units reached Perekop.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 21-78-00015 “Electoral
  processes during the Civil War by the example of anti-Bolshevik quasi-states in European Russia (1918–
  1920)”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Crimean Regional Sejm
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Crimean Regional Government
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: elections
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Civil War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Volunteer Army
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Constitutional Democrats
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Social Revolutionaries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mensheviks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bolsheviks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Milli Firqa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Problem of Elections to the Crimean Regional Sejm during the Civil War
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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