Concept
Popular Socialists (Russia)
Overview
political party in the Russian Empire
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In Russia both these causes are more effective than elsewhere. The Russian bourgeoisie finds it impossible to deny the people universal suffrage, well aware that this would arouse opposition against the Provisional Government among the masses, and give prevalence to the left, the more determined wing of the proletariat in the Revolution. Even that monarch of the reserve, Michael Alexandrovitch, understands that he…
Leon Trotsky, Our Revolution
Close in meaning to Popular Socialists; the term itself is not named.
If during the revolutionary month preceding the general political evolution expressed itself in the fact that the influence of the fusionist parties was being replaced by a decisive influence of the Bolsheviki, it is quite plain that this process found its most striking and fullest expression in the Soviets, while the dumas and zemstvos, notwithstanding all their formal democratism, expressed yesterday's status of…
Leon Trotsky, From October to Brest-Litovsk
Close in meaning to Popular Socialists; the term itself is not named.
Friends of Russia here think of the dictatorship of the proletariat as merely a new form of representative government, in which only working men and women have votes, and the constituencies are partly occupational, not geographical. They think that "proletariat" means "proletariat," but "dictatorship" does not quite mean "dictatorship." This is the opposite of the truth.
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Close in meaning to Popular Socialists; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.
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