Social Revolutionaries

Question 1

What were the origins of the Social Revolutionaries?

Answer 1

Slavophiles

Question 2

What did the Slavophiles believe?

Answer 2

• Russia was exceptional
• future of Russia lies in the Russian Peasant

Question 3

From the 2 beliefs that the Slavophiles held, which one did the SRs also believe?

Answer 3

future of Russia lies in the Russian Peasant

Question 4

What do the SRP believe should be done with the land?

Answer 4

SRP believe land should be redistributed to the peasants

Question 5

When was the Social Revolutionary Party formed?

Answer 5

1901

Question 6

How do the SRP want to end the autocracy?

Answer 6

• Tsar should be overthrown in a violent revolution
• This would come about through assassinations and acts of political terror
• The peasants would be the ones to achieve this revolution

Question 7

How would the SRP want society to look after they were to overthrow the Tsar?

Answer 7

The society would be built around the Russian peasant

Question 8

What did the SRP do in 1904?

Answer 8

In 1904, they murder 2000 officials of the Tsarist regime including Von Plehve

Question 9

Who was murdered by the SRP in 1911?

Answer 9

Stolypin

Question 10

How did the SRP fail?

Answer 10

Ultimately they aren’t successful

• the Okrhana infiltrate them and neutralize them even to the point where the head of the combat group in the SR joins the Okhrana and becomes a double agent and sells the SRs out
• They also didn’t execute the Tsar which is the person that can actually create change