The Black Hundreds defend the present tsarist government, stand for the landowners, for the bureaucrats, for the power of the police, for military courts-martial, for pogroms.

The Kadets defend the interests of liberal bourgeoisie, liberal landowners, merchants and capitalists. The Kadets are the party of bourgeois lawyers, journalists, professors and the like.

Social Democracy is the party of the working class, defending the interests of all the toiling and exploited.