Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries was a revolutionary socialist political party formed during the Russian Revolution.
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15 Facts About Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
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Representatives of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs hoped that the Petrograd Soviet would not take power by itself, but that the Congress of the Soviets would form a new socialist government that included multiple parties and separated Alexander Kerenski from power without causing a civil war.
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At first the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs defended the creation of a new exclusively socialist government that included all currents and parties, including the Right SRs.
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The result was not as satisfactory as the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs announced, since the government was controlled by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
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Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs formed a coalition with the Bolsheviks in the Council of People's Commissars in late 1917 when, after Lenin's ultimatum to moderate Bolshevik leaders to abandon their attempts to achieve a coalition government with the rest of the more moderate socialist parties, those left the Government.
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The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs wanted to approve extensive political and social changes in the assembly, but had no intention of submitting to parliamentary procedures to achieve its revolutionary objectives, as was the case with the Bolsheviks.
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The legal reforms that supported the changes in the countryside increased support for the Soviet regime in Russian agriculture and during their months in government the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs managed to unite their populist program with the peasant desires for land.
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The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs continued to participate in numerous government agencies, including the Cheka.
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The leaders of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs hoped to gain the support of the left-communists, at odds with Lenin for his capitulation to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs, being in the minority, still openly opposed their former Bolshevik allies, for which they were expelled from the congress.
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At the nearby Kronstadt naval base, where the influence of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs was great, the Bolsheviks took political control by force, creating a "revolutionary committee" that separated the Soviet and in practice excluded the Socialist Revolutionaries from the next elections.
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At the Fourth and Final Party Congress, held between October 2 and 7,1918, the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs claimed that the murder of the German ambassador had been a measure favorable to the world revolution, despite the fact that it ended their alliance with the Bolsheviks and led to the repression of the party.
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The government persecution of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs disrupted the organization within only a few months.
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In October 1919 and again in May 1920, the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries SRs ended their confrontations with the Government in order to focus on opposing the counterrevolutionary threat of the White Armies.
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