Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks)
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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks)
Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия (меньшевиков) |
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| General Secretary | Various |
| Founded | January 1, 1912 |
| Dissolved | 1965 |
| Split from | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party |
| Headquarters |
Saint Peterburg (1912–17) Berlin (1917–33) Paris (1933–40) New York City (1940–65) |
| Newspaper | Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, Rabochaia gazeta (Workers' gazette) |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Orthodox Marxism Agrarianism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| International affiliation |
Vienna International (1921–23) Labour and Socialist International (1923–40) |
| Colours | Red |
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks) (Russian: Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия (меньшевиков)) was a political party in Russia. It emerged in 1912, as the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was divided into two (the other group being the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)). The Mensheviks and Bolsheviks had, however, existed as factions of the original party since 1903.
After the 1912 split, the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia became a federated part of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik) (by this time the Mensheviks had accepted the idea of a federated party organization).
At the 1917 congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik) a party Central Committee was elected, consisting of Raphael Abramovich, I. Akhmatov, I. Astrov, Pavel Axelrod, B. Gurevich, E. Broido, F. Lipkin, Fyodor Dan, Henryk Ehrlich, V. Ezhov, K. G. Gogua, B. Gorev, Ivan Maisky, Julius Martov, Alexander Martinov, A. Frumson, Pinkevich, S. Semkovskii and I. Volkov.
After the October Revolution, differences emerged inside the party. In 1921 the party issued the 'Platform of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party', calling for liquidating the political monopoly of the Communist Party, which was identified as something quite different from the dictatorship of the proletariat, privatizations of large sectors of industry and giving full voting rights to the peasantry and those treated by the Soviet government as the bourgeois class. From the beginning of 1921, after the suppression of the Kronstadt garrison revolt, the 10th Communist Party congress and the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) and ending of forcible confiscation of grain from the peasantry, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was forced to operate underground in the Soviet Russia and Soviet Union, and openly only in exile in Europe and North America. The Foreign Delegation of the party had been established in 1920, and was at first located in Berlin (until 1933), then shifted to Paris and in 1940 moved to New York City. In exile the party consisted of small groups in Geneva, Liège, Berlin, Paris, Bern and (later) New York.
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