Elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly were held on 25 November 1917. Organized as a result of events in the February Revolution, the elections took place two months after they had been origina
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Lenin in Switzerland
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Yuli Martov 1917Por Steinberg
The Socialist Revolutionary Party was a major socialist political party in the late Russian Empire, during both phases of the Russian Revolution, and in early Soviet Russia. The party members were kno
1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election
…government dissolved the Constituent Assembly due to a number of reasons. They cited outdated voter-rolls that did not acknowledge the split within the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the assembly's conflict with the elected Russian Congress of the Soviets as an alternative, democratic structure. The dissolution of the Constituent…
Kampf un kempfer, a Yiddish pamphlet published by the SRs exile branch in London, 1904
The leaders of the party at its Third Congress, June 1917
1917 SRs election poster whose caption in red reads партія соц.-рев. (in pre-1918 Russian), short for Party of the Socialist-Revolutionaries; the banner bears the party's motto Russian: Въ борьбѣ обрѣтешь ты право свое ("Through struggle you will attain your rights"); and the globe bears the slogan земля и воля ("land and freedom"), expressing the agrarian socialist ideology of the party.