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September Municipal Elections in Moscow
In the first week of October, 1917, Novaya Zhizn published the following comparative table of election results, pointing out that this meant the bankruptcy of the policy of Coalition with the propertied classes. “If civil war can yet be avoided, it can only be done by a united front of all the revolutionary democracy. …”
Elections for the Moscow Central and Ward Dumas.
June 1917
September 1917
Socialist Revolutionaries
58
Members
14
Members
Cadets
17
”
30
”
Mensheviki
12
”
4
”
Bolsheviki
11
”
47
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