development of social democratic party

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the influence of marxism and the development of the social democratic worker’s party

  • pleckanhov emancipation of labour group grew

  • 1898:rise social democratic workers party

  • 1898: first congress of the russian social democratic workers party of the soviet union was held in minsk- only 9 delegates present/ produced a manifesto

  • congress was broken up by the okhrana who arrested two of newly elected committee

  • 1903: second party congress took place: 51 voting delegates considered a variety of propositions- divided

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mensheviks

  • awaited the bourgeois revolution that they believed had to precede the proletarion revolution

  • believed the impetus had to come from the workers themselves

  • insisted that membership should be open to all and the party should work through the trade unions and other workers’ organisations to raise workers’ consciousness

  • wanted to follow democratic procedures and feared approach of boksheviks could lead to dictatorship

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bolsheviks

  • suggested bourgois and proletarion revolution could happen simultaneously

  • felt party’s job was to educate the workers to lead them through revolution

  • believed that membership should be restricted and that members should work within small cells that could escape police notice

  • favoured control in hands of a central committee

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trade unions

  • state feared trade unions (revolutionaries working through them)

  • 1907: economic depression and rise in unemployment reduced opportunity for union action

  • april 1912: lena goldfields provided new impetus

  • new round of stikes ensued

  • st petersburg: ¾ of stiles took place, ½ in metal trades

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numbers of trade unions

1906-1910: 497 unions closed down and 604 were denied registration

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other opposition groups

  • SR and SD weakened by exile of leaders after 1905

  • damaging split between SDs

  • suffered from activities of secret police

  • industrial depression (1907) , lack of finance, shortage of printing press made organisation difficult

  • 1912-14: bolshevik fortune when they succeeded in taking over many legal labour institutions- gained 6 workers’ deputies in election in 4th duma

  • before 1914: opposition in russia appeared weakened and demoralised