Social Revolutionary Party
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Social Revolutionary Party
Tyler McGaughy
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Who Are They?
• Backround?• How and why they are a
terrorist group?• What was their
narrative?
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Victor Chernov
• Populist• Started the Social
Revolutionary Party• With the hope to
establish a concrete base of support for populism
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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
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Romanov Dynasty
• Only autocracy left in Europe
• Czar Nicholas was very unpopular with Russian people.
• Entire Romanov family executed by Bolsheviks
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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
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Leaders of Terrorist Brigade
Gregory Gershuni
Yevno Azef
Boris Savinkov
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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
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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
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Two Dominant Parties Emerge
Vladimir Lenin- Leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
Julius Martov- Also Leader of the RussianSocial Democratic Labor Party
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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)
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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