the Social Revolutionary (SR) party

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  • the Social Revolutionary Party (SRs)
    • what influenced the SRs?
      • the People's Will
      • Marxism mixed with populists
    • when was the party created?
      • 1901
    • how was the party created?
      • different groups with similar beliefs formed the party
    • what were the party's aims?
      • favoured populist ideas of redistribution of land and nationalism (left of party)
      • favoured terrorism to achieve aims
    • what were the methods used by the SRs?
      • stir up discontent in the countryside
      • stir up strikes in towns
      • disrupt government by political assassinations
    • successes
      • promoted a wave of political terrorism in the early years of the 20th century
        • 2,000 between 1901-1905
      • 2 ministers of internal affairs taken out (1902 and 1904)
      • Stolypin taken out in 1911
    • failures
      • secret police foiled some of the plans
      • 4,579 revolutionaries sentenced to death between 1905-1909
        • weakened the party
    • Yevno Azef
      • double agent working for the SRs and secret police
      • forced to live in Germany in exile
        • got involved in Marxism
      • exposed as tsarist spy in 1908
        • fled to Germany where he died in 1918
    • according to the party, who would carry out the revolution?
      • peasants
      • workers
    • which societal groups made up the party members?
      • peasantry
      • urban working class
    • what was Viktor Chernov's impact?
      • most influential writer
      • editor of party's journal

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