Lvoff
PRINCE GEORGE E., Russian social reformer, one of the prominent figures in the final revolution PRINCE GEORGE E. LVOFF which brought about the downfall of the Imperial Government in 1917; became interested in social reform at an early age, working through the zemstvos, those community councils within which the LYCEUM Imperial Government limited all the local autonomy it allowed to communities.
Prince Lvoff was one of the delegation which, representing the national federation of zemstvos, presented a petition to Nicholas II., in 1905, for an extension of civic rights. He was a member of the first Duma, and identified himself with the Constitutional Democrats, standing for an extension of the democratic principle in Russia's political organization. In March, 1917, when the Czar was overthrown and the problem of organizing a provisional government presented itself, Prince Lvoff was found to be the only personality on whom both conservatives and radicals could agree as suitable to head the Cabinet. He was, accordingly, nominated Premier, and was one of the few who remained in the Cabinet during the many changes of the Kerensky régime. After the rise into power of the Bolsheviki, under Lenine and Trotzky, Prince Lvoff was compelled to flee abroad.
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