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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.

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Author:   Maureen Perrie
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Volume:   20
ISBN:  

9780511896354

ISBN 10:   0511896352
Publication Date:   07 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

Part I. From Populism to the SR party (1881–1901): 1. The Populist legacy; 2. The first peasant Brotherhood; 3. The Agrarian-Socialist League; 4. Rural propaganda in Saratov guberniya; 5. The party and the League; Part II. The campaign for the peasantry (1902–1904); 6. The peasant movement of 1902; 7. The SR Peasant Union; 8. The problem of cadres; 9. Agrarian terrorism; Part III. The revolution of 1905; 10. The party, the peasantry and the revolution; 11. The nature of the peasant movement; Part IV. The aftermath of revolution (1906–1908): 12. The party approves its programme; 13. Splits in the party; 14. The SR agrarian programme in the first two Dumas; 15. The commune, socialisation and the Stolypin reforms; 16. Party activity in the countryside; Conclusion.

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