Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия
AbbreviationRSDLP
LeaderVladimir Lenin (Bolshevik faction)
Founded1 March 1898
Merger ofLeague of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
Emancipation of Labour
General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia
Succeeded byWhite movement (Mensheviks)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
HeadquartersPetrograd
Political orientationMarxism
Social democracy
Labourism
Democratic socialism
Revolutionary socialism
Communism
Bolshevism (Bolsheviks)
Menshevism (Mensheviks)
Political positionCentre-left to far-left
International affiliationSecond 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

1905 revolution

During the 1905 Russian revolution, the Bolsheviks organized uprisings in Moscow and the Caucasus.[1]

Factional disputes

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

  1. C. Allen (1950). Stalin: Slander and Truth, A review of Isaac Deutscher’s Biography of Stalin. Communist Party of Great Britain. [MIA]
  2. "Trotsky vs. Lenin" (2014-06-15). ML-Theory. Archived from the original on 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-07-27.