Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия | |
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| Abbreviation | RSDLP |
| Leader | Vladimir Lenin (Bolshevik faction) |
| Founded | 1 March 1898 |
| Merger of | League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class Emancipation of Labour General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia |
| Succeeded by | White movement (Mensheviks) Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) |
| Headquarters | Petrograd |
| 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.