The Electoral System on the Territory of the Provisional Governmement of the Far East

Abstract

The article is devoted to the discussions accompanying the creation of electoral system in Primorsk public formation before elections for an Provisional National Assembly in the Far East in the summer of 1920. The civil war in the Far East of Russia in its final stage (1920-1922) was characterized by competition of several state projects. The main parties to the conflict were completely dependent on the Bolsheviks Far Eastern Republic (FER), white Transbaikal and Primorye managed by regional zemstvos. It is in the framework of the Primorye statehood that provided the most developed parliamentary system of the period. However, the predominance of the Socialists in the National Assembly comparably affected its law-making process. Based on the protocols of the Commission on the drafting of regulations on the representative body, the author argues that constructed on the basis of the Socialists electoral system of Primorye fundamentally influenced the election results. Negotiated during discussions between Socialist and liberal lawyers, election legislation of Primorye contributed to the victory of the left forces under whose auspices and took place in the future work of the local Parliament.