The Socialist Revolutionary Party: Russia's Forgotten Revolutionaries

Before the Bolsheviks seized power, the Socialist Revolutionary Party was the most popular political force in Russia. This episode explores the SRs' rise from the peasant-based populist tradition of the 19th century, their key figures like Viktor Chernov and the charismatic terrorist Maria Spiridonova, the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the party's role in the February Revolution, and their catastrophic split after the Bolshevik coup. We examine the Left SRs' brief alliance with Lenin, their assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, and the brutal suppression that followed. The episode also covers the SRs' last stand in the Constituent Assembly and their doomed resistance during the Civil War, including the Komuch government in Samara and the Green Army. A story of idealism, terror, and the tragic fate of Russia's true democratic socialists.

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