The New Dynamic Playing Out Inside of Russian Socialism

Between 19 o five and the arrival of first world war about a decade later, there was something of a broad re alignment happening within the larger spectrum of russian socialism. Those who were implacably opposed to revolutionary terrorism splintered off and became known as the s r maximaists. Meanwhile, on their right wing, a chunk of s r split towards legal parliamentary work. They reformed themselves as a new group called the popular socialists. The great controversy surrounding revisionism was the great controversy inside socialism during the 25 years of what one might call the age of the second international. And it directly informs the great controversy that ultimately destroyed the secondinternational.