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Free elections have a short history in Russia. In the Tsarist period elections were introduced for the selection of members of the local representative assembly (zemstvo) in 1864, and for elections to the national parliament (the State Duma) after the revolution of 1905. However these were elections held under a highly restricted franchise, and to institutions with few limited powers. Where the result was inconvenient to the government, ways were found to ignore or reverse it.
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Wyman, M. (1997). Elections and Voting Behaviour. In: White, S., Pravda, A., Gitelman, Z. (eds) Developments in Russian Politics 4. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25852-9_6
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