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description: Bolsheviks: Revolutionary wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party which under the leadership of Lenin led the working class to the taking of power in October 1917. Trotsky and his supporters joined the Bolshevik Party at its conference of July 1917 past differences between them having been resolved through the experience of the revolution. He was elected to the Bolshevik central committee and with Lenin led the struggle for power.Mensheviks ('minority'): The reformist wing of the RSDLP got their name from the split with the Bolsheviks ('majority') over organizational questions at the 1903 Party Congress. In 1917 with their mistaken 'two-stage' theory of the Revolution Menshevik ministers helped prop up the capitalist Provisional Government supported by imperialist foreign policy and fought against the proletarian revolution. After October they became an openly counter-revolutionary party.Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs): The SRs based themselves on the peasantry. Their program called for free popular rule nationalization of the land and nationalization of all great industries. After the February revolution they became with the Mensheviks the mainstay of the bourgeois Provisional Government. By the time of the October Insurrection the right wing of the SRs sided openly with the counter-revolution. The left wing of the SRs having split formed a short-lived agreement with the Bolshevik government.Kadets: The Constitutional Democratic Party of the liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie in Russia. Failing to save the monarchy in February 1917 they took the advantage of their key position in the Provisional Government to pursue their counter-revolutionary and imperialist policies. After the October revolution they actively supported the invasion of Russia by the armies of the imperialist powers.
language: English
title: The Heritage We Renounce
publisher: Foreign Languages Pub. House