 On instigation of Pavel Milyukov the Progressist Party combined with the Kadet Party, Left Octobrists, and progressive Nationalists and individual politicians as Vasily Shulgin to form a political front in the Duma that called for a "government of confidence".According to the Bolsheviks it supported a social-chauvinist stance towards the continuation of World War I.The program content was determined by the desire to find common ground for an agreement with the government on the basis of a minimum of liberal reforms.