The Other Russian Revolutionary Parties: Kadets, Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries (SRs) 

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When you realize how many factions were there in Russia at the time,its almost surprising that the Bolsheviks were the one that won

Great episode! I feel like this is a forgotten aspect of the Russian Revolution(s) and the Civil War. In the popular simplified memory, it's just "the Reds vs the Whites".

It should be mentioned that the Left SRs also attempted to assassinate Lenin in July 1918. The assassin actually hit Lenin but didn't kill him; however the wound is felt by some to have contributed to the strokes that Lenin had beginning in 1921 which ended in his death in 1924. Unsurprisingly, the assassination attempt ended the cooperation between the Left SRs and the Bolsheviks.

I'm watching this in pieces, then once more all the through, to get it all straight. Thanks for making a complicated subject more comprehensible!

Great way to spend my morning, bedankt Stefan!

Thank you. You presented a very orderly presentation of an extremely complicated subject.

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You always have the most interesting and obscure subjects, Stefan!

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Very interesting and informative again! Groet, T.

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Thanks for the follow up!

Interesting research Thank You for sharing your knowledge ❤️

Keep up the great work!

Nice and very interesting video good job. A topic I suggest that may sound boring but I would like to see is a video about the Slovene home guard and Slovenia during 1941-1945 generally.

Another great lecture Stefan.

Great series, keep them coming. BZ

You need a catchy quote at the end.. like. Eat, sleep, learn, until next time! Or If you are not hustling history, you are just hustling yourself! Man these vids are the best! I love expanding my worldly views! We don’t learn this cool stuff in history class. In Ontario anyways! Thanks again!!

Thanks for History bro

Hey man you should do some videos about Ireland. Its actually really interesting, there are multiple uprisings and rebellions over the 800 year occupation. The united irish men rebellion, the great famine, the 1916 rising, war of independence and civil war, as well as the emergency with the irish fascists.

Reminds me of my Russian revolution course from back in college, great job! 👍

Superb, Stefan ! Another wonderful piece of detailed information on the Tsarist -era Russian left !!! Many thanks ! I wonder if, someday, you could find time to do some videos on the left in the Netherlands. Henk Sneevliet and the the very weighty influence of Dutch Marxists in the rise of the PKI ( Indonesian Communist Party ) would be a wonderful topic to explore, I reckon !

Stefan, Amazing channel. You cover topics that noone else does. Do you know Prokudin-Gorsky's colour(!) photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia? They are insanely beautiful. Look him up. Perhaps you can use his photographs in a video like this one. Keep up the good work!

Finally, the most interesting faction has a video that it deserves!

Watched a couple of vids know. I like. You great. I listen more.

Man man, wat doe je dit toch leuk. Ik kan er geen genoeg van krijgen.👍

Firstly great video again Stefan and im thinking between all the red factions,the russian civil war and then Stalins purges,they had lots of their own versions of the night of the long knives!.

This was a nice summary. History rhymes.

Very interesting as usual, i´ve heard the name mensheviks before but not the others. If it was something similar among "the whites" with many different factions sometimes contradicting each other the situation must have been a complete mess.

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That is completely wrong. Yes, 'Bolsheviki' means "those of the majority" and 'Mensheviki' means "those of the minority", but this is not the case. The Mensheviks were several magnitudes in greater numbers than the Bolsheviks. The origin of the distinction comes from a meeting of the editorial staff of 'Iskra' ("Sparkle"), the magazine of the Russian Social-Democrat Workers' Party. Martov's faction pushed in one direction, Lenin's faction pushed in another. The supporters of Martov just left the meeting, to which Lenin's reaction to his supporters was "Well, comrades, it seems that we have the majority ('bol'shinstvo')." After that Lenin didn't miss a chance to point out to Martov in their power struggle, that he controls the majority in the party, but this was just a hollow posture. In reality of those four parties (well, they're actually six, because the Kadets and the SRs each had a left wing and right wing the same way the Social Democrats had the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks and each party split eventually) the Bolsheviks were actually the smallest until they mushroomed by the end of 1917 and the beginning of 1918. They have carried out the October Revolution not because they had tge popular support, but because as the smallest faction they were the most disciplined, instead of quarreling about yet another declaration, they had nothing to lose and very moderate electoral support, so they needed the radically turn the table and they had no problem to throw Russia into chaos, releasing criminal prisoners and radicalised deserter soldiers and sailors in the streets, while the other parties tried to preserve some basic public order. Of those parties the Bolsheviks were the "puritan" Marxists. They pretty much followed Marx's theory of the industrial working class as the vanguard of the revolution (although that class was very, very small in the predominantly agrarian Russian Empire) and a small party of professional revolutionaries as the core of that vanguard. The Mensheviks were the "revisionist" Marxists. They also followed Marx's teachings, but tried to adopt them to the Russian reality. They called for a role of the peasants equal to that of the proletariate in the coming revolution. Lenin's 'Decree for the Land' was his attempt to out-menshevik the Mensheviks, because until then he has hardly paid any attention to the agrarian question. The SRs were by far the predominant socialist movement in Russia, far more popular than Lenin's and Martov's Social Democrats. They were "socialist patriots" and have evolved from the Russian socialist agrarian utopists - the 'Narodniks', with little to no influence from Marx's teachings. Lenin's older brother, who was radicalised and in turn his execution has radicalised Lenin himself, belonged to that movement. The split between the left SRs and the right SRs came from the fact, that the right SRs were willing to pursue their views in a parliamentary democracy, while the left SRs have kept their revolutionary fervor and thus entered a practical alliance with the Bolsheviks. In fact even the Russian Anarchists were more popular than either the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. What made the difference was that the Bolsheviks were least concerned about the actual revolution and most concerned about their rise to power. For that reason they formed temporary alliances and crushed their opponents piece-meal. As they gained power and momentum opportunistic SRs and Mensheviks jumped aboard and those, who remained loyal and stubborn were summary dealt with. The Kadets were actually the most centric, they have placed their bets on a parliamentary democracy, had the least backbone and perished first in the fire of the Revolution.

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Can you make a video about Stalin, especially about the period after WW2, the period is interesting because the USSR is now an atomic power.Btw, great Job, verry accurate facts👍👍

Many were imprisoned by Stalin for being basically the wrong shade of Red.

Lot’s of options, large area, lots of people. Engaging. Is quite interesting.

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Great video entertaining and informative like always, maybe you could cover the revolutionary insurrectionary army of Ukraine or the Ukrainian black army I think it could be cool

The kadets were my favorite

0:47 They were more like economic liberals rather than social democrats, at least by modern standards.

I just watched 'europa the last battle', and im very confused...can anyone help?

More radical than the bolsheviks? Astonishing! But you must see us, the anarcho-capitalists, and know what utopia means. Dank je!

What about Anarchists?

History Hustle I have a question for you. Were right socialist moderate members of left? Were Baku commissars killed by right socialist? Baku Commissars were killed by right socialist revolutionaries (moderate left wing)

Kerenski was the first leader not Lenin as many people think. Was Kerenski more reasonable than Lenin or Stalin???

The mensheviks and the social revolutionaries are two children of the bourgeoisie. Created to connect with the peasants and proleteriat respectively and through deceit to the masses about who they really are bring the power to the bourgeoisie

Read, Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed!

great, but you didn´t say that Lenin was a German spy and had full G. support

Such a sad story for Russia, I feel bad and sympathy towards the Kadets and Mensheviks. To be honest, most likely I would be a poor russian farmer who would support most likely the Bolsheviks too or the other commie party that believes the peasants are the revolutionary if I would live in that time otherwise I would support the Kadets if I would be better in terms of wealth.

Im totally not watching your videos to make political factions for a dnd campaign where the party is basically in russia. Im just struggling now for far right parties in russia that arent sepertist.

The Kadets were social democrats? I thought they were social liberals.

I heard all of them except Kadets.

1st

Kadets are based