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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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