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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия | |
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| Abbreviation | RSDLP |
| Leader | Vladimir Lenin (Bolshevik faction) Julius Martov (Menshevik faction) |
| Founded | 1 March 1898 |
| Banned | February 1923 |
| Merger of | League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class Emancipation of Labour General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia |
| Merged into | RSDLP (Unified) |
| Succeeded by | White movement (Mensheviks) Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) |
| Headquarters | Petrograd |
| Political orientation | Marxism Social democracy Labourism Democratic socialism Revolutionary socialism Communism Bolshevism (Bolsheviks) Menshevism (Mensheviks) |
| Political position | Centre-left to far-left |
| International affiliation | Second International |
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) was a Marxist political party in the Russian Empire that existed from 1898 to 1918. It had two factions known as the Mensheviks, a more revisionist and reformist faction, and the Bolsheviks, a more revolutionary faction led by Vladimir Lenin.
History[edit | edit source]
1905 revolution[edit | edit source]
During the 1905 Russian revolution, the Bolsheviks organized uprisings in Moscow and the Caucasus.[1]
Factional disputes[edit | edit source]
Vladimir Lenin held a Bolshevik congress in Prague in 1912 and expelled the Mensheviks from his group. Trotsky and the Mensheviks held a separate congress in Vienna and said that Lenin's actions were illegal. They joined with the opportunist Otzovists and Liquidationists to form the August Bloc.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ C. Allen (1950). Stalin: Slander and Truth, A review of Isaac Deutscher’s Biography of Stalin. Communist Party of Great Britain. [MIA]
- ↑ "Trotsky vs. Lenin" (2014-06-15). ML-Theory. Archived from the original on 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-07-27.