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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 |
| Dissolved | 1903–1917[a] |
| Merger of | SBORK Emancipation of Labour Jewish Labour Bund and smaller Marxist organizations |
| Succeeded by | |
| 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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The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP),[b] also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or as the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk.[c]
Members of the RSDLP became popularly labelled as esdeki (Russian: эсдеки, singular: Russian: эсдек, romanized: esdek) - from the Russian-language names of the initial letters S (Russian: С) and D (Russian: Д) standing for "Social Democrats" (Russian: социал-демократы, romanized: sotsial-demokraty).[2]
Formed to unite various revolutionary organizations of the Russian Empire into one party, the RSDLP split in 1903 into Bolshevik ("majority") and Menshevik ("minority") factions, with the Bolshevik faction eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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- ^ Cavendish, Richard (11 November 2003). "The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split". History Today. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
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Minin, Oleg (25 April 2023). "The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906–1908)". In Parppei, Kati; Rakhimzianov, Bulat (eds.). Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547–1917. Imperial Encounters in Russian History. Boston, Massachusetts: Academic Studies Press. ISBN 9798887191485. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
The Marxist-oriented Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party and the closely associated Jewish Bund were habitually referred to [...] as esdeki (Social Democrats) and bundisty (members of the Bund).