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Social Revolutionary Party

Social Revolutionary Party. Tyler McGaughy. Who Are They?. Backround ? How and why they are a terrorist group? What was their narrative?. Victor Chernov. Populist Started the Social Revolutionary Party With the hope to establish a concrete base of support for populism. Parties Beliefs.

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Social Revolutionary Party

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  1. Social Revolutionary Party Tyler McGaughy

  2. Who Are They? • Backround? • How and why they are a terrorist group? • What was their narrative?

  3. Victor Chernov • Populist • Started the Social Revolutionary Party • With the hope to establish a concrete base of support for populism

  4. Parties Beliefs • Party was democratic socialist and agrarian socialist • Most of support came from rural peasantry • Peasants liked the policy of land socialization as opposed to the Bolshevik programme of Land nationalization

  5. Romanov Dynasty • Only autocracy left in Europe • Czar Nicholas was very unpopular with Russian people. • Entire Romanov family executed by Bolsheviks

  6. Terrorism as a Policy • Influenced by the tactics of “Peoples Will” • PSR had a terrorist wing “The Social Revolutionary Combat Organization” was later named the “Terrorist Brigade”. • Led and founded by GrigoryGershuni

  7. Leaders of Terrorist Brigade YevnoAzef Gregory Gershuni Boris Savinkov

  8. Tactics of Social Revolutionaries • Assassinations were key tactics • Assassination of two minister of the interior • Fanny Kaplan shot and wounded Lenin. • Killed Governor General of Moscow

  9. A Divide in Beliefs • The Party Split in 1917 over World War I and redistribution of land. • Party of Socialist Revolutionaries had to many offshoots and beliefs • Left SR’s took up with the Bolsheviks under Lenin • Right SRs joined in with the Mensheviks under Julius Martov

  10. Two Dominant Parties Emerge Vladimir Lenin- Leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party Julius Martov- Also Leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

  11. New Parties Bolsheviks or Reds Mensheviks/Social Revolutionaries Led by Martov Members either Executed or allowed into new communist government SRs dominant part in Russia (won every constituent assembly) • Led by Lenin • Took power in 1917 during October revolution • Became dominant party in Russia

  12. Russian Civil War • Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 in October • Fighting broke out amongst the “Reds” and the “Whites” • Reds solidified power in Russia and became the new government

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