Folksgrupe was a Jewish Anti-Zionist

Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionistic views or opposition to the state of Israel. The term is used to describe various religious, moral and political points of view in opposition to these, but their diversity of motivation and expression is sufficiently different that "anti-Zionism" cannot be...

 political organization in Russia

Russia

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, founded at a meeting in Vilna in March 1905. The organization proclaimed to work for establishing 'civil, political and national rights for the Jewish People in Russia'. The full name of the organization was the League for the Attainment of Full Rights for the Jewish People in Russia. Its followers were known as Dostizhentsi (from Достижение, dostizheniye, 'attainment').

Led by three prominent lawyers, Maxim Vinaver, Oscar Gruzenberg

Oscar Gruzenberg

Oskar Osipovich Gruzenberg was a prominent Russian defense attorney.- Life :Gruzenberg was born to a family of a Jewish merchant in Kiev in 1866 . After graduation from a gymnasium in Kiev, Gruzenberg enrolled in Kiev University to study jurisprudence...

 and Henrik Sliozberg, it assembled liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

 elements from the Cadet Party. The party demanded equal civic rights, abolishing laws imposing restrictions on Jews, linguistic rights (the right have access to Yiddish and Hebrew schooling) and independence of religious institutions. It did however not advocate national automony for the Jews.

The central bureau of the group was located in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

. Half of the bureau was based in the city and the other half was based in the provinces.

Zionists

Zionism

Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...

 and the Folkspartei

Folkspartei

The Folkspartei was founded after the 1905 pogroms in the Russian Empire by Simon Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin. The party took part to several elections in Poland and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s and did not survive the Shoah.-Ideology:...

 leader Simon Dubnow

Simon Dubnow

Simon Dubnow was a Jewish historian, writer and activist...

 came to accuse the group of favouring assilimation. Dubnow had belonged to the group at its initial stage, and formed part of its central bureau. The party was however able to find common ground and some cooperation with the Bund, in their opposition to Zionism.

The group played a prominent rule in the Provisional Government

Russian Provisional Government

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. In the 1917 election, the group received around 1% of the Jewish votes.