The Development Of Socialism + The Emergence Of The Social Revolutionary Party Flashcards
What happened by 1894?
-the slavophile + populist ideal of ‘new Russia’ based on peasants looked increasingly fly unlikely
What ideas were revived after the great famine?
-ideas of ‘agrarian socialism’
-highlighted need to reform rural economy
What did students begin doing in light of this?
-championing a new style populism taking inspo from defunct ‘peoples will’ + favouring violent protest
What did the student activities culminate in?
-the assassination of minister of education Bogolepov by student names Pyotr Karpovich 1901
What was the impact of Karpovich killing Bogolepov?
-several thousand students gathered where Kay dying in Karpovich’s support
-police broke it up with 60 injured + 800 arrests
What group was founded 1901?
-social revolutionary group founded as rallying list for those wishing appeal to peasantry through commitment to ‘land socialisation’ + decentralised gov
Who was the SR’s most influential theorist?
-intellectual Viktor Chernov law graduate from Moscow + editor of party journal ‘revolutionary Rus’
What were the members of the SR like?
-broadly supported Marxist teaching
-combined this with populist ideas thus favouring a ‘Russia ‘ rev programme
What view did the SR’s out forward?
-the interests of peasants + workers (labouring poor) were identical + thus work together destroy autocracy + bring land redistribution
What was their membership like?
-developed wide national base with large peasant membership
-50% of supporters from urban working class
Who was Yevno Azef?
-double agent working for SRs + secret police
-involved in Marxism + forced live in exile in Gr where recruited as informer by Okhrana
What did Azef do to the SRs?
-went back to Rus + joined SRs
-organised arrest if previous leader of its ‘combat organisation’ + took position himself
What did this lead him to be able to do?
-used influence betray comrades + mastermind murder of Plehve
-but exposed as tsarist spy + fled 1908 to Gr where died 1918
What were the tactics of the SR party?
-stir up discontent in countryside + strikes in towns
-disrupt gov by political assassinations promoting wave of political terrorism
What is evidence of these tactics?
-carried out 2000 political assassinations 1901-1905
-incl. 2 ministers internal affairs Sipyagin 1902 + Plehve 1904
What was the role of the SRs in the 1905 rev?
-developing full programme Nov 1905 + forming separate combat organisation attractive to many students to carry out assassinations
How were the SRs successful?
-success with assassination of PM Stolypin 1911
-maintained campaign of killings + violence over following years
What was the impact of the secret police on the SRs?
-foiled some activities c successful infiltrating the movement at its highest levels
-4500 SRs sentenced death 1905-09 + 2300 executed
