Russian Political Parties

RSDLP (marx.revol.soc)

⇢ Workers

⇢ Lenin etc.

Esers, S-R (agrar.soc.dem)

⇢ Peasants, workers.

⇢ Old Narodniks, Catherine Breshkovsky, Grigory Gershuni

Trudoviks (soc.dem)

⇢ Peasants

⇢ Kerensky, Aleksei Aladin

Kadets K-D (lib.)

⇢ Intellectuals, moderate conservatives.

⇢ Pavel Miliukov

Octobrists (cons., lib.)

⇢ Gentry, businessmen

⇢ Alexander Guchkov, (cordial with Witte, Stolypin)

⇢ Split -> Left O., Zemstvo O., Right O.

Trudoviks

• Notable people:
  • Alexander Kerensky
  • Aleksei Aladin

Socialist Revolutionary Part (S-R = Esers)

• Notable people:
  • Catherine Breshkovsky
  • Grigory Gershuni : ⇢ Assasination as strategy.
• Lenin: “Toiling” petty bourgeoisie in Russia

Constitutional Democratic Party - (K-D = Kadets)

• Notable people:
  • Pavel Miliukov
• Lenin: Thoroughly bourgeois

Union of October 17, Octobrists

• Notable people:
  • Alexander Guchkov
  • Good terms with Sergei Witte, Pyotr Stolypin
• Lenin: Land lords and the big capitalists