Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
좌파 사회혁명당
A revolutionary socialist party formed in 1917 from a left-wing split in the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) Party. Breaking with the Right SRs over the war and the Provisional Government, the Left SRs joined the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution and formed a coalition government. Under leaders Maria Spiridonova, Boris Kamkov, and others, they pushed for land socialization, but resigned from the coalition in March 1918 in protest against the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, then launched an armed uprising in July 1918 following the assassination of the German ambassador Mirbach. Crushed by the Bolsheviks, the party fragmented and ceased to exist by 1923; most of its leadership was executed during the Great Purge.
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- Wikipedia (EN) comprehensive article covering split from SRs, coalition with Bolsheviks, Brest-Litovsk withdrawal, Mirbach assassination, and suppression
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: formation, key leaders (Spiridonova, Kamkov, Proshian), government coalition, break over Brest-Litovsk, July 1918 uprising and aftermath
- Marxists Internet Archive Marxists.org Encyclopedia of Marxism glossary entry on Left SRs: origins, coalition, Brest-Litovsk objection, Fifth Congress of Soviets, insurrection
- persee.fr Cinnella, Ettore. 'The tragedy of the Russian Revolution: Promise and default of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in 1918.' Cahiers du monde russe (1997): scholarly analysis of PLSR based on unpublished congress minutes