radical parties
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- Created on: 19-03-15 20:22
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- radical parties
- before the 1905 revolution no political parties were permitted
- all shared one aim, of seeing the end to Tsarism (autocracy)
- traditions of radicalism
- populist movement
- looked at peasants as the political basis for future society
- wanted a system of government based on independent peasant communes. local democracy
- middle class
- couldn't gain massive support, so adopted more extreme tactics. aimed at assassinating leaders of the tsarist state
- led to founding of radical parties -social democratic party and the social revolutionary party
- social revolutionary party
- won support of industrial workers
- promised all peasants would be given their own land
- was not a united group, more a wide variety of factions
- terrorist wing - assassinated the tsar's uncle
- supported peasant uprisings
- largest political party before 1917
- most supported as wanted to redistribute land to peasantry
- mix of peaceful and violent
- social democratic party
- Marxism - industrial development was essential for a socialist revolution
- western ideas
- Marxist - aimed to overthrow Tsar and establish socialist society
- mix of peaceful and violent
- later split into the Bolsheviks and mensheviks
- 1903 - 2nd Party Congress
- London- leaders forced to live abroad from Russia due to arrests
- Bolsheviks - dedicated revolutionaries
- mensheviks - broad membership
- class struggle
- business men and industrial workers
- rich peasants (kulaks) and poor peasants
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