Social RevolutionariesПартия социалистов-революционеров

By: Julia Skonieczna

Social Revolutionaries• Established in 1901• Major political party in early

20th century Russia• A key player in the Russian

Revolution• shared power with other liberal

and democratic socialist forces• won the majority of the

national vote in Russia's first-ever democratic elections

• was defeated and destroyed by the Bolsheviks

General Belief

• Believe strongly that the coming revolution should be lead by the peasantry, not the proletariat.

Splits

Revolutionaries:- Preapared to

compromise with other parties and accept gradual reform

Anarchist:-Favour the use of

terrorist tactics and press for immediate revolution

Political Freedoms

• To establish a democratic republic; equal and universal right to vote for everyone, complete freedom of speech, press etc., separation of the church from the state......

Education

• Introduce public education at government expense

The Rights of Workers

Nationalities and Minorities• Elimination of all

forms of violence and exploitation, introducing freedom, equality

Prior to the 1917 Revolution

• to apply key Marxist concepts into thinking and practice

• to widen the concept of the 'people‘

• to turn society against the tsar

Social Revolutionaries Election Poster

Prior to the 1917 Revolution

• Got a lot of support from the peasants who in supported the program of land-socialization - division of land to peasant tenants*. (Opposed to the Bolshevik program of land-nationalisation)

*person who leases a place

1917 Revolution

• The split within the SR party became final. The Left SR stayed at the Congress while the mainstream SR walked out of the Congress. In late November, the Left SR joined the Bolshevik government.

After 1917

• SR became less political significant

• Their attempt to Third Russian Revolution failed

• SR continued its activities in exile

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