Petrograd Seimas (Lithuanian: Rusijos lietuvių seimas Petrograde or Visos Rusijos lietuvių seimas) was a conference of Lithuanian activists in Petrograd, Russian Republic, held on 9–16 June [O.S. 27 May – 3 June] 1917 to discuss the political future of Lithuania. Citing the right of self-determination, the delegates discussed whether Lithuania should seek autonomy or full independence. While it failed to unite Lithuanian activists, it helped to crystallize ideas on Lithuania's independence.
The February Revolution brought political freedoms and Lithuanians hurried to organize their political parties. There was a need to organize an authoritative political body that could represent all Lithuanians and work towards obtaining autonomy or full independence from Russia. Representatives of five Lithuanian parties established the Council of the Lithuanian Nation (Lietuvių tautos taryba) in February 1917. To boost its authority and recognition, the council called the Petrograd Seimas attended by 334 deputies. There were passionate disagreements between the political right (Party of National Progress, Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party) and left (Popular Union of Lithuanian Socialists, Social Democratic Party of Lithuania) both on procedural questions and fundamental issues. The left advocated for autonomy within Russia while the right advocated for full independence. When the right won by a narrow margin of votes, the socialists withdrew in protest.
Such splintering of the Lithuanian movement brought an end to the Council of the Lithuanian Nation and Lithuanians were unable to gain any kind of recognition or acknowledgement from the Russian Provisional Government before it was toppled in the October Revolution. Political initiative was taken over by Lithuanians in German-occupied Lithuania when they organized Vilnius Conference and elected the Council of Lithuania in September 1917.
PetrogradSeimas (Lithuanian: Rusijos lietuvių seimas Petrograde or Visos Rusijos lietuvių seimas) was a conference of Lithuanian activists in Petrograd...
the Lithuanian Nation which organized the PetrogradSeimas (chaired by Bielskis) in June 1917. The Seimas attempted to establish a Lithuanian political...
Council of the Lithuanian Nation which organized the PetrogradSeimas in June 1917. The seimas discussed post-war political future of Lithuania. Noreika...
of Lithuanian students in Saint Petersburg, representing it at the PetrogradSeimas in June 1917 and the Congress of Non-Sovereign Nations in Kiev in September...
Bolsheviks. Smolskis was an active participant in the PetrogradSeimas in June 1917. The Seimas discussed Lithuania's political future after the war....
Lithuania, Giedrys was a factory worker in the United States before moving to Petrograd in 1917. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) and...
June 1917, Matulaitis participated in PetrogradSeimas which debated Lithuania's future after the war. At the Seimas, he opposed the resolution calling for...
their purpose. The center of political life returned to Lithuania. Great Seimas of Vilnius Lithuanian Wars of Independence Eidintas, Žalys & Senn 1999,...
simply as Santara. As Santara's representative, he participated in the PetrogradSeimas in June 1917. Lithuanian activists hotly debated political future of...
order and order be restored in Ukraine - the National Ukrainian Assembly (Seimas) elected by popular, equal, direct and secret ballot. All the laws that...
Russian Empire but which is currently in Lithuania. While he was attending Petrograd University (now Saint Petersburg State University), Gorfinel studied jurisprudence...
to Petrograd and returned to Lithuania in summer 1918. Bielinis was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in April 1920, Second Seimas in May...
Front". On 18 January 1918, the Constituent Assembly began its work in Petrograd, the majority of which were representatives of the Mensheviks and Socialist...
them to strike and resist Tsarist officials. He participated at the Great Seimas of Vilnius and was one of the co-founders of the Peasant Union. He then...
section of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) in Petrograd on April 12, 1917. In October 1917, Tiesa became the official newspaper...
plants were evacuated from the front-line territories of the Baltics and Petrograd, to the Urals. The staff of the arms factories was replenished with evacuated...
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