Social Revolutionary Party

Tyler McGaughy

Who Are They?

• Backround?• How and why they are a

terrorist group?• What was their

narrative?

Victor Chernov

• Populist• Started the Social

Revolutionary Party• With the hope to

establish a concrete base of support for populism

Parties Beliefs

• Party was democratic

socialist and agrarian socialist

• Most of support came from rural peasantry

• Peasants liked the policy of land socialization as opposed to the Bolshevik programme of Land nationalization

Romanov Dynasty

• Only autocracy left in Europe

• Czar Nicholas was very unpopular with Russian people.

• Entire Romanov family executed by Bolsheviks

Terrorism as a Policy

Influenced by the tactics of “Peoples Will”

PSR had a terrorist wing “The Social Revolutionary Combat Organization” was later named the “Terrorist Brigade”.

Led and founded by Grigory Gershuni

Leaders of Terrorist Brigade

Gregory Gershuni

Yevno Azef

Boris Savinkov

Tactics of Social Revolutionaries

• Assassinations were key tactics

• Assassination of two minister of the interior

• Fanny Kaplan shot and wounded Lenin.

• Killed Governor General of Moscow

A Divide in Beliefs

• The Party Split in 1917 over World War I and redistribution of land.

• Party of Socialist Revolutionaries had to many offshoots and beliefs

• Left SR’s took up with the Bolsheviks under Lenin

• Right SRs joined in with the Mensheviks under Julius Martov

Two Dominant Parties Emerge

Vladimir Lenin- Leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

Julius Martov- Also Leader of the RussianSocial Democratic Labor Party

New Parties

Bolsheviks or Reds• Led by Lenin

• Took power in 1917 during October revolution

• Became dominant party in Russia

Mensheviks/Social Revolutionaries

• Led by Martov

• Members either Executed or allowed into new communist government

• SRs dominant part in Russia (won every constituent assembly)

Russian Civil War

• Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 in October

• Fighting broke out amongst the “Reds” and the “Whites”

• Reds solidified power in Russia and became the new government