Socialist Revolutionary Party

Socialist Revolutionary Party

Russian  Sotsialisty Revolyutsionery (SR, or ESERY) 

      Russian political party that represented the principal alternative to the Social-Democratic Workers' Party during the last years of Romanov rule. Ideological heir to the Narodniki (Populists) of the 19th century, the party was founded in 1901 as a rallying point for agrarian socialists, whose appeal was principally to the peasantry. The party program called for the socialization of the land and a federal governmental structure. The SR Party carried out hundreds of political assassinations and never completely abandoned terrorist tactics (V.I. Lenin was wounded by an SR member in 1918).

      In 1917 it was the largest socialist group in Russia. Between February and October 1917 its members held powerful political posts (e.g., Aleksandr Kerensky was minister of justice and later prime minister; Viktor Chernov was minister of agriculture) and exercised considerable influence over the provisional governments. The party won 410 seats (compared to the Bolsheviks' 175) in the election for the Constituent Assembly (November 1917) but had divided over the Bolshevik Revolution (October 1917). Its radical wing (Left Socialist Revolutionaries) formed a splinter group that participated in the Bolshevik government until its representatives were expelled in July 1918 at the fifth Congress of the Soviets. The SR was suppressed by Lenin after the Bolshevik victory in the Civil War.

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