The Agrarian Policy of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party: From Its Origins Through the Revolution of 1905-1907Cambridge University Press, 1976 - 216 pages The Socialist-Revolutionary (SR) party gained an overall majority in the election to the Russian Constituent Assembly, which was dissolved by the Bolsheviks in January 1918. The SRs derived the bulk of their electoral support from the peasantry, and the gulf between the predominantly urban Bolshevik party and the rural masses was to create immense problems for the Soviet government in the 1920s, culminating in the horrors of forced collectivization. The SRs offered an alternative vision of the Russian peasant's path to socialism. They were closer to the peasantry than any other revolutionary party, and more aware of the problems involved in implementing a socialist transformation of Russian agriculture. In this study the author traces the development of SR agrarian policy in the party's formative years, from the period of disillusionment which followed the failure of the Populist 'movement to the people' of the 1870s, through the revolutionary years 1905-7, to the subsequent reaction under Stolypin. |
Table des matières
The Populist legacy | 5 |
The first peasant Brotherhood | 14 |
The AgrarianSocialist League | 24 |
Rural propaganda in Saratov guberniya | 34 |
The party and the League | 42 |
The peasant movement of 1902 23353 | 53 |
The problem of cadres | 70 |
Agrarian terrorism | 91 |
The nature of the peasant movement | 119 |
The party approves its programme | 143 |
Splits in the party | 153 |
The commune socialisation and the Stolypin reforms | 177 |
Party activity in the countryside | 185 |
Conclusion | 196 |
Glossary | 204 |
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