Party of Revolutionary Communism
혁명적 공산주의당
A Soviet party that split from the Left SRs in Moscow in September 1918, arguing for cooperation with the Bolsheviks. Andrei Kolegayev and Anna Bitsenko were among its leaders, and it dissolved itself into the Russian Communist Party in September 1920.
In depth
Why did it split off?
On 7 September 1918 the Saratov organisation of the Left SRs declared that wrecking the Brest peace, terror and fighting the Bolsheviks to seize power were unacceptable and proposed a national congress. The congress, held in Moscow on 25 to 28 September, elected a presidium including Andrei Kolegayev and Anna Bitsenko and resolved on a complete break with the Left SRs. It declared: "We are leaving the party, but we are not leaving its programme."
How did it end?
The party published the paper and journal Volya truda and, while holding that Soviet power was a democracy of all working people and not of workers alone, moved steadily toward the Bolsheviks. In January 1920 it mobilised members for the Western Front. On 22 September 1920 its Sixth Congress decided to dissolve the party and join the Russian Communist Party, citing the unification of Comintern sections. Members and sympathisers then numbered 1,625.