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Kadet
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kadet kädet
English
Constitutional Democratic Party
Alternative forms
Cadet
Etymology
en ine-pro *kap- head
en ru каде́т, from ru к.-д., an abbreviation of the party name.
Proper noun
s
en historical A member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of the Russian Empire.
en 1989 H. T. Willetts w:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn August 1914 133 w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-51999-4 “No, the Duma did approve the program, but against the Kadet vote.”
en 2015-11-01 w:Hendrik Hertzberg That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes w:The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik-hertzberg/marco-rubio-ted-cruz-republican-debate-footnotes Her closest analogue in early-twentieth-century Russia would be the Constitutional Democrats, Kadets for short, the party of the liberal bourgeoisie. The Kadets often formed political alliances with the Mensheviks, and both were represented in the provisional government that Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew . https://web.archive.org/web/20261001201503/https://www.newyorker.com/news/hendrik-hertzberg/marco-rubio-ted-cruz-republican-debate-footnotes 1 October 2026
Anagrams
en adekt taked
en 2-syllable words