Zionist Socialist Workers Party
| Zionist Socialist Workers Party | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1905 |
| Place of foundation | Odessa |
| resolution | 1917 |
| newspaper | The najer way, Vilnius 1906/07 |
| Alignment | Zionist socialist |
| Number of members | 27,000 (1916) |
The Zionist Socialist Workers' Party (Russian Сионистско-социалистическая рабочая партия ) was a party in Russia from 1905 to 1917.
history
In 1905 it was founded in Odessa . It emerged from the Jewish Vosroschdenije movement . The Zionist Party advocated a separate Jewish country, but not in Palestine , but z. B. in Uganda . She aspired to a socialist society. The party accepted terrorist actions against the Russian state as a means of political struggle.
Members of the party took an active part in the 1905 revolutionary struggles in Russia. Soon after it was founded, it was the second largest Jewish party in Russia after the Bund . The party was close to the socialist Second International and had an advisory mandate at its 1907 congress in Stuttgart .
After 1907 the activity of the party decreased significantly, many members emigrated from Russia.
In 1917 it merged with the Jewish Socialist Workers 'Party to form the United Jewish Socialist Workers' Party .
literature
- Frankel, Jonathan, The Jews and the European crisis 1914-1921 , New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 339ff.