Beschreibung:
In this study the author traces the development of SR agrarian policy in the party's formative years.
Part I. From Populism to the SR party (1881-1901): 1. The Populist legacy; 2. The first peasant Brotherhood; 3. The Agrarian-Socialist League; 4. Rural propaganda in Saratov guberniya; 5. The party and the League; Part II. The campaign for the peasantry (1902-1904); 6. The peasant movement of 1902; 7. The SR Peasant Union; 8. The problem of cadres; 9. Agrarian terrorism; Part III. The revolution of 1905; 10. The party, the peasantry and the revolution; 11. The nature of the peasant movement; Part IV. The aftermath of revolution (1906-1908): 12. The party approves its programme; 13. Splits in the party; 14. The SR agrarian programme in the first two Dumas; 15. The commune, socialisation and the Stolypin reforms; 16. Party activity in the countryside; Conclusion.