Populists

Question 1

Who were the Populists

Answer 1

Social Revolutionary Party (SRs)

Question 2

agrarian socialism

Answer 2

revived after the Great Famine of 1891-92

taking estates from landowners and dividing the land between the peasants to be farmed communally

Question 3

Social Revolutionary Party (SRs)

Answer 3

members broadly accepted Marxism teachings but combined this with populist ideas

Question 4

Who did SRs appeal to?

Answer 4

both the peasants + workers = the labouring poor
saw them as identical = said they should work together to destroy autocracy + bring about land distribution

Question 5

What is land socialization?

Answer 5

the transfer of land from private to public ownership.

this set them apart from marxism who believed in land nationalisation

Question 6

How did the SRs appeal to the labouring poor?

Answer 6

Land socialisation + decentralised gov

they dev a large national base of support with large peasant membership
50% of their supporters from the working class

Question 7

Tactics

Answer 7

stirred up discontent in the countryside + strikes in town

carried out 2000 political assassinations from 1901-1905