The paper analyzes the Cadet party's pre-election leaflets at the State Duma elections. The questions of the democratization of Russian political system took an important place in the leaflets. The Cadets openly propagandized the slogans of a general, equal, direct and secret electoral right which was basic for them on the elections to the first State Duma. On the elections to the second State Duma, the creation of a government responsible to the Duma be­came the main slogan of the Cadets. Along with it, the Cadets propagandized the need of the expansion of legislative and budgetary rights of the Duma, as well as the need of the democratization of judicial authorities. By speaking about the need of Russian political system's democratization in detail and by putting those problems in the center of the election campaign, the Cadet party took a commitment to the voters to raise the issues in the Duma. This partly explains the fact that the Cadets brought to the Duma as many bills relating to the democratization of Russian politi­cal system, as all the other factions together.

Анализируются предвыборные листовки Конституционно-демократической партии, распространяемые как в столицах, так и в провинциальных городах во время компаний по выборам в Государственную Думу Российской империи. Выясняется, каким образом в листовках были представлены лозунги всеобщего, равного, прямого и тайного избирательного права, расширения законодательных, бюджетных и контрольных прав Государственной Думы, ответственности правительства перед Государственной Думой, демократизации судебной системы. Рассматриваются аргументы, приводимые кадетами в листовках в пользу своей государственно-правовой программы