1917 Kiev City Duma election

thumb|Fragment of electoral poster of the Russian-Jewish Socialist Bloc (List 1) thumb|Electoral propaganda bulletin of the Bloc of Russian Voters (List 3). Vasily Shulgin appears as the top candidate of List 3 thumb|Advert for the Czech list thumb|Electoral propaganda of the Ukrainian Socialist Bloc (List 12) An election to the Kiev City Duma uk Київська міська дума was held on 5 August 1917 23 July. Olena Palko 26 November 2020 Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin Bloomsbury Publishing 28 978-1-350-14270-1 1164825849 https://books.google.com/books?id=X3P_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28 The election took place in the aftermath of the February Revolution (with Russia was governed by the Provisional Government), the formation of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the First World War. The election resulted in a victory for the socialist bloc. Candidate lists Eighteen lists of candidates contested the election. А Иргизов 1928 1917 год на Киевщине: хроника событий Гос. изд-во Украины 178 236224878 https://books.google.com/books?id=5nMHkAEACAAJ A joint socialist list was formed by the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (United Mensheviks), General Jewish Labour Bund and the Polish Socialist Party – Left (PPS-Lewica).вибори до думе в киіві. Borotba (UPSR organ) Borotba uk Боротьба (газета УПСР), issue 6-7, 1917. pp. 17-18 Ahead of the election the Ukrainian socialist parties had decided to launch a list of their own, in protest of what they saw as the 'anti-Ukrainian campaign' in the Russian socialist press. Irene Rima Makaryk Virlana Tkacz 1 January 2010 Modernism in Kyiv: Kiev/Kyïv/Kiev/Kijów/?ie? : Jubilant Experimentation University of Toronto Press 63–64 978-1-4426-4098-6 1007024021 https://books.google.com/books?id=PWknXDfsY6cC&pg=PA64 On the other extreme stood the Bloc of Russian Voters, one of the Russian nationalist groups that had emerged in response to the formation of the Central Rada in March 1917. Silvio Pons Andrea Romano 2000 Russia in the Age of Wars, 1914-1945 Feltrinelli Editore 26 9788807990557 1059547864 https://books.google.com/books?id=_bCWJc2nHdkC&pg=PA26 Their main electoral slogan was 'Down with Ukraine and Ukrainization'. Дмитро Дорошенко 1954 Історія України, 1917-1923 Булава 117 15983699 https://books.google.com/books?id=_q55vgEACAAJ The United Jewish Socialist Workers Party (Fareynikte) and the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion) had a joint list. On the non-socialist side of Jewish politics there was the list of the Jewish Democratic Bloc - a coalition of Zionists, the Orthodox Agudath Yisrael and the non-affiliated Council of United Jewish Organizations. The Polish Executive Committee, dominated by the National Democrats and claiming to be the representative of all Poles, fielded a 'Polish Voters' List'.Dr HENRYK JABŁOŃSKI. MINISTERIUM SPRAW POLSKICH UKRAIŃSKIEJ REPUBLIKI LUDOWEJ 1917-1918 The Polish Socialist Party – Revolutionary Faction ran a list of their own. Election result There were 307,920 eligible voters, out of whom 178,704 (58%) cast their votes. There were 3,170 invalid votes. Below are two accounts of the election result; an article in the Russian conservative nationalist newspaper Kievlyanin, published 9 August 1917 27 July, and the work 1917 god na Kiyevshchine: khronika sobytiy ('1917 in the Kiev region: a chronicle of events'), published in 1928 by the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. The two sources give identical distribution of seats of elected deputies. ListResults perKievlyanin (1917)Results per1917 god na Kiyevshchine (1928)SeatsVotes% of votesVotes% of votesSeatsList 1 - Bloc of Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Bund and PPS-Left 64,207 36.58%63,586 37%44List 12 - Bloc of Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party and Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries35,60320.28%35,23820%24List 3 - Bloc of Russian Voters25,41814.48%23,03215%18List 4 - People's Freedom Party ('Kadets')15,1708.64%15,0789%10List 10 - Bolsheviks9,3655.34%9,5206%7List 5 - Polish Voters' List8,4714.83%8,8935%6List 8 - Jewish Democratic Bloc7,0764.03%6,7414%5List 2 - Jewish Socialist Bloc (United Jewish Socialist Workers Party, Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion))4,5842.61%4,2232%3List 14 - Kiev Section of Polish Socialists1,7090.97%1,622-1List 15 - Ukrainian Socialists-Federalists and non-party socialists1,1680.67%1,060-1List 17 - Union of Land Leaseholders6060.35%552-1List 7 - Labour People's Socialist Party4240.24%--0List 18 - Women Reservists4190.24%--0List 16 - Kiev Union of Military Invalids4030.23%--0List 9 - Czech People's Party3460.20%--0List 11 - Group of Clerks and Deputies of Kiev City Local Government3260.19%--0List 6 - List for Starokievsky District, Batyeva Gora and Novovokzalna Street uk Нововокзальна вулиця (Київ)1720.10%--0List 13 - Progressive Democratic Group of inhabitants of Pechersk, Zvirynets and Staronavodnytska Street uk Старонаводницька вулиця670.04%--0 Результаты выборов в Киевскую городскую думу. Kievlyanin, July 27, 1917. p. 2 Steven L. Guthier 1990 The Roots of Popular Ukrainian Nationalism: A Demographic, Social and Political Study of the Ukrainian Nationality to 1917 University of Michigan 263 165453258 https://books.google.com/books?id=sLcWAQAAMAAJКупчик Я. Вибори гласних до Київської міської думи 23 липня 1917 р.: підготовка, проведення, результати. Вісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. - 2016. - Vol. 1. - pp 38-42. The monarchist list 3 was mainly vote was in the central parts of the city. The socialists obtained better voting numbers in the outskirts and suburbs of the city. The Bolshevik vote was primarily based among workers of Arsenal Factory and Podol and soldiers at the 3rd Air Field. The Bolsheviks got 2,259 votes in Pechersk and 1,536 votes in Lybidsk. In the Shuliavka District the Ukrainian socialist list got 1,104 votes, whilst the Bolsheviks got 10 votes, the monarchists 1 vote and the Russian-Jewish socialist list 1 vote. Ukrainian parties won a fifth of the seats in the City Duma. 10 out of the 24 deputies for the Ukrainian socialist list were Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionaries. The General Jewish Labour Bund got 7 of the 44 seats won by of the Menshevik-SR-Bund list, Moisei Rafes being one of the Bundist deputies. 1934 Hoover Institution Publication, Issue 3 Hoover Institution, Stanford University 439 7263088 https://books.google.com/books?id=W0UNAAAAIAAJ I︠A︡. G. Frumkin Jacob G. Frumkin Gregor Aronson Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich Golʹdenveĭzer 1966 Russian Jewry: 1917-1967 T. Yoseloff 23 978-0-498-06956-7 271115 https://books.google.com/books?id=CeFtAAAAMAAJ Mikhail Balabanov ru Балабанов, Михаил Соломонович was one of the Menshevik deputies. Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin 1970 Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Volume 39 Gos. izd-vo polit. lit-ry 546 254439587 https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgTAQAAIAAJ Georgy Pyatakov was one of the Bolshevik deputies. Jyoti Basu 1997 Documents of the Communist Movement in India: 1944-1948 National Book Agency 1088 9788176260053 1129461258 https://books.google.com/books?id=SeI9AQAAIAAJ Ipolit Fialek uk Фіалек Іполит Михайлович, leader of the Polish section of the Kiev City Bolshevik Committee, was one of the elected deputies. Александр Яковлевич Манусевич 1965 Польские интернационалисты в борьбе за победу Советской власти в России: февраль-октябрь 1917 г Наука 321 1170320723 https://books.google.com/books?id=JhY8AAAAMAAJ Бош Е. Б. 10 March 2015 Год борьбы: борьба за власть на Украине с апреля 1917 г. до немецкой оккупации Directmedia 9785445832997 https://books.google.com/books?id=PrY2CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT40 Kazimierz Domosławski pl was the deputy of the Polish Socialist Party in the city duma.Potapenko, Maksym. (2019). Kazimierz Domosławski's Testimonies on the Activities of the Polish Military Organization in Kyiv in 1915–1918. Intermarum: history, policy, culture. 10.35433/history.11195.Kievlyanin. July 25, 1917. p. 3 New city government After the election, Vikenty Dreling (a respected journalist and Menshevik) was elected chairman of the City Duma. Irene Rima Makaryk Virlana Tkacz 1 January 2010 Modernism in Kyiv: Kiev/Kyïv/Kiev/Kijów/?ie? : Jubilant Experimentation University of Toronto Press 63–64 978-1-4426-4098-6 1007024021 https://books.google.com/books?id=PWknXDfsY6cC&pg=PA64 A secret ballot was held in the City Duma to elect the new mayor - the Socialist-Revolutionary from Moscow Yevgeny Ryabtsov ru Рябцов, Евгений Петрович was an elected with a majority of votes (48 votes) whilst Mykola Porsh of the Ukrainian Bloc obtained 24 votes. S. L. Volin 1990 Меньшевики на Украине, 1917-1921 Chalidze Publications 16 24261131 https://books.google.com/books?id=UkLlAAAAMAAJ The Menshevik Abram Ginzburg ('Naumov') became the deputy mayor. Oleg Budnitskii 24 July 2012 Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920 University of Pennsylvania Press 56– 978-0-8122-0814-6 1037924041 https://books.google.com/books?id=dLdhSUZI-AYC&pg=PA56 Стефан Машкевич 5 April 2020 Киев 1917-1920. Прощание с империей Glagoslav Publications 9789660387508 1134610930 https://books.google.com/books?id=a93uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT252 Out of the ten members of the city executive, there were only three Ukrainians (Stepan Siropolko uk Сірополко Степан Онисимович, Dmytro Koliukh uk Коліух Дмитро Вікторович, Levko Kovalev uk Ковалів Левко Борисович). Дмитро Дорошенко 1954 Історія України, 1917-1923 Булава 117 15983699 https://books.google.com/books?id=_q55vgEACAAJ The city government, representing the moderate socialist trend, would face pressure from both Bolshevism and Ukrainian nationalism in the ensuing period. Gordon M. Hahn (2018) argues that the weak showing of Ukrainian parties in urban elections in the summer of 1917 may have contributed to the Russian Provisional Government's August 1917 decision to reject the draft Ukrainian constitution presented by the Central Rada. Gordon M. Hahn 25 January 2018 Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West and the "New Cold War" McFarland 30 978-1-4766-6901-4 1001520260 https://books.google.com/books?id=49BHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 By the time of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election, the Ukrainian Bloc vote in Kiev city increased to 26%. Andrew Wilson 1997 Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith Cambridge University Press 39 978-0-521-57457-0 1170230130 https://books.google.com/books?id=F_QMCypjpXwC&pg=PA39 See also 1917 Astrakhan City Duma election 1917 Baku City Duma election November 1917 Yekaterinburg City Duma election 1917 Russian municipal elections 1917 Minsk City Duma election 1917 Odessa City Duma election References Category:Local elections in Russia Category:Russian Revolution in Ukraine Category:1910s in Kyiv Category:Elections in Kyiv Category:Elections in the Russian Revolution Category:August 1917 in Russia