the Social Revolutionary (SR) party
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- Created on: 31-05-21 16:14
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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
- promoted a wave of political terrorism in the early years of the 20th century
- 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
- what influenced the SRs?
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