Open Access"Stormy Petrels": The Socialist Revolutionaries in Russia's Labor Organizations, 1905-1914
Author(s) -
Michael Melançon
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the carl beck papers in russian and east european studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-839X
pISSN - 0889-275X
DOI - 10.5195/cbp.1988.74
Subject(s) - proletariat , soviet union , economic history , political science , silence , government (linguistics) , subject (documents) , political economy , law , sociology , history , art , philosophy , politics , linguistics , library science , computer science , aesthetics
Lenin's harsh evaluation was not unique. Social Democrats oftendenigrated SR activities among the proletariat, whom the SDs, as Marxists, claimed as their exclusive constituency. In 1902 Iskra described the worker-oriented Petersburg SR Committee as "half-mythical" and Martov wrote that the SRs were neither socialist nor revolutionary; he and other SD contributors to the multi-volume Obshchestvennoe dvizhenie v Rossii v nachale XX-go veka, which appeared between 1909 and 1914, expressed their view of SR efforts among workers by maintaining virtual silence on the subject? After the revolution, SD labor activists such as S. A. Lozovskii and P. A. Garvi portrayed the trade union and cooperative movements as almost exclusively SD in orientation.