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Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries | |
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| Founder | Viktor Chernov |
| Founded | 1900 |
| Dissolved | 1921 |
| Political orientation | Idealism Utopian socialism Narodism |
The Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, also known as the SRs, was a left-wing party in the Russian Empire. Like the Second International, it supported the imperialist Great War.[1] The SRs also believed universal suffrage in a bourgeois democracy could lead to socialism.[2]
References
- ↑ Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Bolshevik Party in the Period of the Imperialist War. The Second Revolution in Russia'. [MIA]
- ↑ “The petty-bourgeois democrats, such as our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and also their twin brothers, all the social-chauvinists and opportunists of Western Europe, expect just this “more” from universal suffrage. They themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false notion that universal suffrage “in the present-day state” is really capable of revealing the will of the majority of the working people and of securing its realization.”
Vladimir Lenin (1917). State and Revolution: 'Class Society and the State'.