Latvian Social Democracy

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The Latvian Social Democratic Party ( Latvijas sociāldemokrātija; LSD ) was an independent regional organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, formed on April 23, 1906 when the Latvian Social Democratic Labor Party was renamed . In 1907 it had 16,000 members. However, the number of members fell sharply after the introduction of martial law and the mass arrests after the failed revolution of 1905 and fell to 2,000 members in 1911. With industrialization from around 1910 the party grew again, but the First World War brought another Decline to 500 members in 1916. The Central Committee of the LSD came under the control of the Bolsheviks in 1915 , while the Mensheviks , who had been excluded from the party, re-established a democratic LSDSP on June 17, 1918.