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Klappentext In this study the author traces the development of SR agrarian policy in the party's formative years. Zusammenfassung In this study the author traces the development of SR agrarian policy in the party's formative years, from the period of disillusionment which followed the failure of the Populist 'movement to the people' of the 1870s, through the revolutionary years 1905–7, to the subsequent reaction under Stolypin. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
