People / group

Socialist Revolutionary Party

1902–1940 · 20th century · Also known as Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, Socialist Revolutionaries

The Socialist Revolutionary Party was a Russian agrarian socialist party founded in 1902 that drew on the populist tradition and the peasantry. It won the most votes in the 1917 Constituent Assembly election. During the Civil War its members led anti-Bolshevik governments, including in Transcaspia and the Centrocaspian Dictatorship at Baku in 1918.

Socialist Revolutionary Party
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Mentioned in 2 state histories

Transcaspian GovernmentCentrocaspian Dictatorship

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Socialist Revolutionary Party. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/socialist-revolutionary-party
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