. Review of reviews and world's work. and one city, 22 are Progres-sives {, Constitutional Democrats) and otherradicals, 42 belong to the Center, 14 are Mon-archists and other reactionaries, and 106 are In-dependents. The Constitutional Democrats andtheir allies control 80 per cent, of the totalmembership of the Duma. The triumph of the 668 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. opponents of the present regime in the face ofthe obstacles purposely put before them is aclear indication of the ripeness of the Russianpeople for constitutional government. Perhapsnever before in the history of
. Review of reviews and world's work. and one city, 22 are Progres-sives {, Constitutional Democrats) and otherradicals, 42 belong to the Center, 14 are Mon-archists and other reactionaries, and 106 are In-dependents. The Constitutional Democrats andtheir allies control 80 per cent, of the totalmembership of the Duma. The triumph of the 668 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. opponents of the present regime in the face ofthe obstacles purposely put before them is aclear indication of the ripeness of the Russianpeople for constitutional government. Perhapsnever before in the history of elective institu-tions was there an election, conducted undersuch adverse circumstances, in which the voiceof the nation made itself so clearly heard. Inat least half of the country, the electorate votedunder martial law, with all liberties and localrights denied them, while any one could be ar-rested, imprisoned, or punished, without sem-blance of a trial, by the will of the , this was the first time the Russian people. WITTES successor in the RUSSIAN PREMIERSHIP. (Ivan Logginovich Goremykin, Russias second Minister-President.) had ever been summoned to the elections byparliamenta, / representatives, and everythingwas new and strange. The complicated systemof voting was deliberately planned so that mem-bers were not chosen by direct vote of the peo-ple, but by an electoral college which was itselfthe product of two or three elections. Moreover,the balloting had been deliberately set for theworst season of the year, the Russian spring,when the roads are almost impassable, andmany of the electors had to travel distancesof one hundred miles or more, at their ownexpense, in onler to vote. Tlie interest wasintense throughout the empire. Jn the coun- try districts, the election was regarded as amomentous national crisis. The peasants pre-pared to go to the polls by religious services,and displayed in their exercise of the franchiseextraordinary political good sense and
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