Progressive Party of Russia

Progressive Party Прогрессивная Партия
Abbreviation	ПП
Leader	Aleksandr Konovalov
Founded	July 5, 1925 (1925-07-05)
Student wing	Student Democratic Forum
Women's wing	Womens' Rights League
Ideology	Constitutional Monarchy Social liberalism Womens' Rights Pluralism
Political position	Center-left
Religion	Secular
Colors	Purple
Duma	6 / 50

The Progressive Party (Russian language: Прогрессивная Партия, ПП), is a center-left political party in Alaska. It is among the five large parties in the country holding seats in the Alaskan Duma. It is currently an opposition party.

Platform

The Progressive Party of Russia is among the most stalwart of defenders of the Constitution of 1925 lauding its massive expansion of the franchise to all men and women in the Russian Empire. However, believing this to be an important first step towards a progressive future, the party supports several proposed amendments and legislative reforms aimed at expanding civil liberties and the welfare state. The party, taking significant influence from Ivan Bunin, believes that the monarchy is an important part of Russian identity and a strong national symbol representing continuity with Russia's past and an alternative to the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union. They believe in modeling the Russian form of government after the British Empire, restoring and retaining their rule over all extant regions of the Empire in the interests of progressing together as a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nation united by their shared values.

The Progressive Party of Russia's platform on social and economic issues is decisively socially liberal including more mainstream support for expanding freedom of speech, of the press and of public assembly as well as proposals considered nearly fringe within Russian politics such as legalizing no-fault divorce and introducing social welfare reforms and public works programs inspired in part by American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Other proposals they support include raising agricultural and fishing subsidies, creating legal protections for women interested in joining the work force, and expanding public education requirements to mandate compulsory schooling for all children between the ages of five and fifteen.

Moreover, the small size of the Progressive Party has given it the benefit of political unity. Unlike the other major parties, the Progressives possess no major factional divisions, being unified around the principles of a free but regulated market, equal rights, infrastructural improvements, and patronizing the arts and sciences.

Party Affiliated Organizations

Student Democratic Forum

The Student Democratic Forum is an organization active on student campuses at all major universities in the Governorate of Alaska. Headquartered in Novoarchangelsk, the organization engages in sanctioned student debates and peaceful demonstrations promoting legal reforms for the expansion of legally protected speech, women's rights and welfare reforms. The Forum operates a Discussion and Debate Committee on all of its campuses where it invites students to have a civil dialogue on various political topics in moderated debates and lightly moderated open forum style discussions. The Forum also hosts political speakers including international White emigre thinkers of the social democratic movement such as Ivan Bunin and members of parliament and local government to deliver speeches and engage with student members.

Women's Rights League

The Women's Rights League was formed during the framing of the Constitution of 1925 to advocate for women's suffrage. Since the Constitution was ratified including universal suffrage for male and female subjects of the Russian Empire, the Women's Rights League saw a temporary drop in its activity but has since begun to gain traction arguing in favor of no-fault divorce, legal protections for women in the workforce and financial support for home makers who lose their primary source of income due to their husbands passing away or abandoning them. Though smaller feminist organizations in Alaska also advocate for birth control measures, the Women's Rights League officially does not support the legalization of birth control measures which its leadership considers a component of the eugenics movement and instead advocates for abstinence and financial support for young mothers.