The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before the First World War

Download or read book The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before the First World War written by Manfred Hildermeier and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) played an important role in the history of the Russian revolutionary movement. The author seeks to explain why this party--which continued the tradition of the 1870s--did not ultimately prevail in an agrarian country like the Tsarist empire. Using a wealth of printed sources and, for the first time, drawing upon materials from the archive of the Central Committee of the PSR, this study provides a detailed analysis of the theoretical foundations the party as well as its organizational structure and political practice during the first Russian Revolution.