Historical Organization
Party of Socialist Revolutionaries
Party of Socialist Revolutionaries
Also known as: SR
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Organization Timeline
Grand Duke Sergei is assassinated
📅 17 February 1905Ivan Kalyayev killed Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich with a bomb in Moscow. The Socialist Revolutionary Combat Organization carried out the assassination. The source date is 4 February Old Style.
May Day demonstrations challenge the authorities
📅 14 May 1905Workers attempted to hold May Day strikes and demonstrations despite police repression. The event is dated 1 May Old Style in the source.
General Sakharov is assassinated in Saratov province
📅 5 December 1905Socialist Revolutionary activist Anastasia Bitsenko shot General Viktor Sakharov, who had been sent to suppress peasant unrest. The source date is 22 November Old Style.
The St Petersburg Soviet publishes the Financial Manifesto
📅 15 December 1905The Soviet and allied parties urged citizens to withdraw deposits, demand gold payments and refuse certain taxes in an effort to weaken the imperial government financially. The source date is 2...
The Moscow uprising begins
📅 20 December 1905A political general strike developed into an armed uprising. Workers erected barricades and revolutionary fighting groups confronted troops and police. The source date is 7 December Old Style.