Meshrajonzy
The Meschrajonzy ( Russian межрайонцы , scientific transcription: Mežrajoncy, literally: those between the districts / intermediate group) was a grouping of the United Social Democrats that had formed in Russia in November 1913 in Saint Petersburg .
This association consisted of a group of split-off Bolsheviks who did not necessarily follow the party line, and a group of "party-loyal Mensheviks ". This also included a group of supporters of the line, which was represented in the newspaper Vperjod . This newspaper was first published in 1915.
The goals of the Meschrajonzy were to bring together the different political currents of the RSDLP . This line led to fluctuating positions mainly between the positions of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks during the First World War . They took the positions of the Zimmerwald Manifesto , from which the demand for the establishment of a III. International was derived.
At the beginning of 1917 the Meschrajonzy group numbered around 400 to 500 followers. After the February Revolution of 1917 they followed the line of the Bolsheviks . Already at the election of the district dumen in May – June 1917, the Meschrajonzy were listed on the electoral lists with the Bolsheviks in a block.
These efforts led to the fact that at a conference of the Meschrajonzy on July 2 . / July 15, 1917 greg. Almost unanimously the union with the Bolsheviks was decided. The leading politicians of the Meschrajonzy included Leon Trotsky , Anatoly Lunacharsky , Adolf Joffe , Dmitri Manuilski , Moissei Uritski , W. Volodarsky and Konstantin Jurenew .
On the VI. RSDLP party congress in Petrograd on July 26th jul. / August 8th greg. until August 3rd jul. / August 16, 1917 greg. the group of Meschrajonzy with their about 4,000 supporters was accepted into the party.
literature
- BN Ponomarjow et al., Istorija Kommunistischeskoi Partii Sowjetskogo Sojusa, Moscow 1976
- GN Golikow, MI Kuznetsov, Enciklopedija Velikaja Oktjabrskaja socialistischeskaja revoljucija, Moscow 1977