Socialist Revolutionary Party

The Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SRs) were a Russian political party active in the early Twentieth Century.

Their programme was in the democratic socialist mould and garnered much support amongst Russia's rural Peasantry who in particular supported their programme of land-socialisation as opposed to the Bolshevik programme of land-nationalisation. Their policy platform could be broadly described as left-wing, although more moderate than that of the Bolsheviks.

The Russian Revolution of February, 1917 brought the SRs a more prolific political role, with one of their members Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky joining the liberal government, eventually becoming the head of government.

The SRs faded after the Bolshevik takeover in October, 1917, although in the elections to the Constiuent Assembly they proved to be the most popular party across the country, gaining some 40% of the popular vote as opposed to the Bolsheviks 25%. However, the Bolsheviks disbanded the Assembly and thereafter the SRs become of less political significance, although some left-SRs did join the Communist Party.

Many SRs fought for the Greens in the Russian Civil War alongside Mensheviks and other banned moderate socialist elements.