John Fredrick Parker
Donor
So here's an issue for our board Russian Revolution experts -- a fair number of us (myself included) know about the basic factions that were vying for power in 1917 between the February and October Revolutions, but our knowledge of their political ideologies is fairly vague and mostly seem to hinge on two issues: (1) "should the Soviets take full power?" and (2) the war. This is a bit limiting when it comes to AH speculation, trying to imagine results of one faction doing better or worse than OTL, and how that would affect the new Russian government.
The basic factions I'm talking about:
The basic factions I'm talking about:
- Bolsheviks
- Right (or "defensist") SRs
- Left SRs
- Mensheviks (left and right)
- Kadets