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{{Infobox political party|name=Russian Social Democratic Labour Party|native_name=Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия|founded=1 March 1898|abbreviation=RSDLP|leader=[[Vladimir Lenin]] ([[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik faction]])<br>[[Julius Martov]] ([[Mensheviks|Menshevik faction]])|banned=February 1923|merger=[[League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class]]<br>[[Emancipation of Labour]]<br>[[General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia]]|merged=[[RSDLP (Unified)]]|successor=[[White movement]] ([[Mensheviks]])<br>[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] ([[Bolsheviks]])|headquarters=[[Saint Petersburg|Petrograd]]|political_orientation=[[Marxism]]<br>[[Social democracy]]<br>[[Labour movement|Labourism]]<br>[[Democratic socialism]]<br>[[Revolutionary socialism]]<br>[[Communism]]<br>[[Leninism|Bolshevism]] ([[Bolsheviks]])<br>[[Revisionism|Menshevism]] ([[Mensheviks]])|position=[[Centre-left]] to [[far-left]]|international=[[Second International]]}}
#REDIRECT [[Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union#Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party]]
 
The '''Russian Social Democratic Labour Party''' ('''RSDLP''') was a [[Marxist]] [[political party]] in the [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russian Empire]] that existed from 1898 to 1918. It had two factions known as the [[Mensheviks]], a more [[Revisionism|revisionist]] and [[Reformism|reformist]] faction, and the [[Bolsheviks]], a more [[Revolution|revolutionary]] faction led by [[Vladimir Lenin]].
 
== History ==
 
=== 1905 revolution ===
During the [[Russian revolution of 1905|1905 Russian revolution]], the Bolsheviks organized uprisings in [[Moscow]] and the [[Caucasus]].<ref>{{Citation|author=C. Allen|year=1950|title=Stalin: Slander and Truth, A review of Isaac Deutscher’s Biography of Stalin|publisher=[[Communist Party of Great Britain]]|mia=https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/communist_review/1950/01/x01.htm}}</ref>
 
=== Factional disputes ===
Vladimir Lenin held a Bolshevik congress in Prague in 1912 and expelled the Mensheviks from his group. [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]] and the Mensheviks held a separate congress in Vienna and said that Lenin's actions were illegal. They joined with the [[Opportunism|opportunist]] [[Otzovism|Otzovists]] and [[Liquidationism|Liquidationists]] to form the [[August Bloc]].<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=ML-Theory|title=Trotsky vs. Lenin|date=2014-06-15|url=https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/37/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622142420/https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/37/|archive-date=2022-06-22|retrieved=2022-07-27}}</ref>
 
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