diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index cf5ce947d6..35f865c962 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
     Alex Dedul
     deric@monowerks.com
+    Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
     dne@mayonnaise.net
     Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
     Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
diff --git a/django/newforms/fields.py b/django/newforms/fields.py
index c3b74e93f7..7c542b9001 100644
--- a/django/newforms/fields.py
+++ b/django/newforms/fields.py
@@ -332,7 +332,9 @@ class NullBooleanField(BooleanField):
         return {True: True, False: False}.get(value, None)
 
 class ChoiceField(Field):
-    def __init__(self, choices=(), required=True, widget=Select, label=None, initial=None, help_text=None):
+    widget = Select
+
+    def __init__(self, choices=(), required=True, widget=None, label=None, initial=None, help_text=None):
         super(ChoiceField, self).__init__(required, widget, label, initial, help_text)
         self.choices = choices
 
@@ -364,9 +366,7 @@ class ChoiceField(Field):
 
 class MultipleChoiceField(ChoiceField):
     hidden_widget = MultipleHiddenInput
-
-    def __init__(self, choices=(), required=True, widget=SelectMultiple, label=None, initial=None, help_text=None):
-        super(MultipleChoiceField, self).__init__(choices, required, widget, label, initial, help_text)
+    widget = SelectMultiple
 
     def clean(self, value):
         """