Question

short note of socialist revolutionary party

Answer 1

Socialist Revolutionary Party was a major Russian political party formed in 1901 with the idea of socialism to support peasantry propagating socialisation of land and federal governmental structure. In 1917 it was the largest social group in Russia. The party split into the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks due to ideological differences. The Bolsheviks wanted to seize power through a revolution and establish a communist dictatorship. The Mensheviks, on the other hand, believed in working within the existing system and bring in gradual changes that would ​lead to the establishment of a parliamentary democracy.

Answer 2

Socialist Revolutionary party, in Russian history, an agrarian party founded by various Populist groups in 1901. Its program, adopted in 1906, called for the overthrow of the autocracy, the establishment of a classless society, self-determination for national minorities, and socialization of the land, which was to be distributed among the peasants on the basis of need. Viktor Chernov was a party leader. A secret  combat organization  within the party arranged political assassinations, notably that of V. K. Plehve (1904) and Grand Duke Sergei (1905). Originally made up of students and intellectuals, the party later gained support from the peasantry. In 1917 some Socialist Revolutionaries participated in the Petrograd soviet and in the provisional government. The party won a majority in the short-lived constituent assembly (Jan., 1918), which was disbanded by the Bolsheviks. By 1922 the party was suppressed.