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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
1898–1912 political party in the Russian Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Social Democratic Party of Russia (disambiguation).
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; Russian: Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия (РСДРП), Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk (then in Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, present-day Belarus).
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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия | |
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Central Committee | Variable |
Founded | 1 March 1898; 126 years ago (1898-03-01) |
Dissolved | 1903–1917[lower-alpha 1] |
Merger of | SBORK Emancipation of Labour Jewish Labour Bund and smaller Marxist organizations |
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Headquarters | Petrograd |
Newspaper | Iskra |
Ideology | Socialism Marxism Factions: Bolshevism Menshevism |
Political position | Left-wing Factions: Centre-left to far-left |
International affiliation | Second International |
Colours | Red |
Most MPs (Jan, 1907) | 65 / 518
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Formed to unite the various revolutionary organizations of the Russian Empire into one party, the RSDLP split in 1903 into Bolsheviks ("majority") and Mensheviks ("minority") factions, with the Bolshevik faction eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.