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Socialist-Revolutionary

Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries
Партия социалистов-революционеров
Founders Andrei Argunov, Mikhail Gots, Grigory Gershuni, Viktor Chernov
Founded 1902 (1902)
Dissolved 1921 (1921)
Headquarters Moscow
Newspaper Revolutsionnaya Rossiya
Paramilitary wing SR Combat Organization
Membership (1917) 1,000,000
Ideology Federalism
Agrarian socialism
Democratic socialism
Narodnichestvo
Political position Left-wing
International affiliation Second International (1889–1916)
Labour and Socialist International (1923–40)
Colours      Red
Slogan "Through struggle you will attain your rights!"
Anthem Worker's Marseillaise
Party flag
Red flag.svg

The Socialist Revolutionary Party, or Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (the SRs; Russian: Партия социалистов-революционеров (ПСР), эсеры, esery) was a major political party in early 20th century Russia and a key player in the Russian Revolution. Its general ideology was revolutionary socialism of democratic socialist and agrarian socialist forms. After the February Revolution of 1917, it shared power with other liberal and democratic socialist forces within the Russian Provisional Government. In November 1917, it won a plurality of the national vote in Russia's first-ever democratic elections (to the Russian Constituent Assembly), but the October Revolution had changed the political landscape and the Bolsheviks disbanded the Constituent Assembly in January 1918. The SRs soon split into pro-Bolshevik and anti-Bolshevik factions. The anti-Bolshevik faction of this party, known as the Right SRs and which remained loyal to the Provisional Government leader Alexander Kerensky, was defeated and destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the course of the Russian Civil War and subsequent persecution.

The party's ideology was built upon the philosophical foundation of Russia's Narodnikpopulist movement of the 1860s–1870s and its worldview developed primarily by Alexander Herzen and Pyotr Lavrov. After a period of decline and marginalization in the 1880s, the Narodnik–populist school of thought about social change in Russia was revived and substantially modified by a group of writers and activists known as neonarodniki (neo-populists), particularly Viktor Chernov. Their main innovation was a renewed dialogue with Marxism and integration of some of the key Marxist concepts into their thinking and practice. In this way, with the economic spurt and industrialization in Russia in the 1890s, they attempted to broaden their appeal in order to attract the rapidly growing urban workforce to their traditionally peasant-oriented programme. The intention was to widen the concept of the people so that it encompassed all elements in society that opposed the Tsarist regime.


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