Is Socialist Revolutionaries left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Socialist Revolutionaries scores −08 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores −04. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Socialist Revolutionaries authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Socialist Revolutionaries scores −01. Constituent assembly and federal republic — combined with a terrorist assassination wing.

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Socialist Revolutionaries

SRs · 1902–1922 · Russia · Agrarian Socialist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

−08ECcollective

−04CUpluralist

−01AUpluralist

−04SClocal

−05IDuniversal

+06CHcoercive

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Socialisation of the land through the peasant commune; the peasantry, not the proletariat, as the revolutionary class.

Economic model

Land to those who work it, distributed by village communes; no private ownership of land.

Organisation of powers

Constituent assembly and federal republic — combined with a terrorist assassination wing.

Reading note

Won the 1917 Constituent Assembly election. The assembly was dissolved by force after one day.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored −08

Coded −8: socialisation of the land through the peasant commune.

Programme textThe programme demands land be taken out of commerce and distributed by village communes.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −04

Coded −4: secular and egalitarian, with a peasant rather than proletarian base.

ScholarshipThe party drew on the Narodnik tradition of going to the people.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −01

Coded −1: a constituent assembly and federal republic, with a terrorist wing.

Documented act or statuteThe Combat Organisation assassinated two interior ministers and a grand duke between 1902 and 1905.

SC · Scale of decision · scored −04

Coded −4: land distributed by the village commune rather than by the state.

Programme textDistribution was to be administered locally on a labour norm.

ID · Rule of membership · scored −05

Coded −5: a federal republic of nationalities.

Programme textThe programme supported national self-determination within a federation.

CH · Method and tempo · scored +06

Coded +6: won the Constituent Assembly election and was dissolved by force.

Documented act or statuteThe party took around 40% of the November 1917 vote; the assembly was dispersed after one sitting.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Russia

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Socialist Revolutionaries. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/srs/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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