Pyotr Struve

• Born in 1870, Struve was a lawyer, economist and philosopher.
• Struve was interested in Marxism and he became involved in the Populist movement in the 1890s.
• Struve was leader of the moderate Russian Marxists and Liberals.

  • In 1900, he was forced into exile in Germany.
  • After his German offices were raided, he fled to Paris in 1904.
• The Union of Liberation formed in 1903 under the leadership of Pyotr Struve.

  • Struve had been publishing the Liberation newspaper in Germany from 1901.
• Struve returned to Russia in 1905 and formed the Kadets.

  • The Kadets became the largest party in the First Duma and Struve was elected to the Second Duma in 1907.
• Struve went on to oppose the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.