History - Russia - Political Parties
- Created by: siobhan
- Created on: 05-04-13 11:47
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- Radical Parties
- Populists (Narodniks)
- Future lay in the hands of the peasants
- Leaders from upper and middle classes
- Over throw the Trsar
- Lived with peasants to inform them
- Used terror
- Led by Lavrov and Chaikovsky
- Social Revolutionaries
- People's Will used terror
- Moderates worked with other parties to achieve improvements
- Founded in 1901 by Chernov
- 1906 - growing support from proffessional classes, trade unions and All Russian Union of Peasants
- 2000 assassination attempts 1901-1905 including Interior minister and Grand Duke Sergei
- Weakened by internal divisions
- Social Democrats
- Marxist party
- Split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks in 1903 - 3rd party congress
- Votes = 28 - 22 but after Jewish Bund left Lenin won 17 - 15
- Leaders were Lenin and Martov
- Used propaganda e.g.. Iskra 'spark'
- Marx ideas matched Russian History e.g. the age of Witte
- Liberals
- Supported moderate reforms such as Oct Manifesto and Dumas
- Kadets wanted consitutional monarchy, elected assembly
- Equality, civil rights, end of censorship abolition of redemption payments, Trade unions and free education
- Middle class
- Supporters of Witte
- Octobristz leaders were Guchkov and Rodzianko
- Kadets were liberal intelligenssia part
- Populists (Narodniks)
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