The Workers' Party for the Political Liberation of Russia (russian: Рабочая партия политического освобождения России, ''Rabochaya partiya politicheskogo osvobozhdeniyat rossii'', abbreviated 'РППОР', RPPOR) was a

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, founded in 1899.Hildermeier, Manfred.
The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before the First World War
'. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. p. 373 The membership of the party included Grigory Gershuni and

Catherine Breshkovsky Catherine Breshkovsky (real name Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (born Verigo), russian: Екатерина Константиновна Брешко-Брешковская; born 25 January (13 January old style) 1844 – 12 Sept ...

(who would become two of the key architects of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party) and its membership was predominantly

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ish. The party had its roots in a

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workers' study circle founded in 1895. In 1899 the group had around sixty members.Hildermeier, Manfred.
The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before the First World War
'. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. pp. 35–36. The party directed most of its agitation towards Jewish workers, a fact that differed the party from other narodnik groups. The main base of the party was found in Bielorussia (which had a large Jewish population). The party, which functioned as a federation of autonomous local groups, had branches in

, Białystok, Dvisnk, Ekaterinoslav, Zhitomir, Berdichev, and

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. The party published a programmatic manifesto (edited by Gershuni and L. Rodionova-Kliacho) in 1900, titled "About Freedom". The manifesto identified autocracy as the main enemy of the people (rather than

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or the industrialists). The document proposed political

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as a means of struggle against Russian despotic rule. The Workers' Party for the Political Liberation of Russia party was one of the groups that affiliated itself with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1902.Perrie, Maureen.
The Agrarian Policy of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party from Its Origins Through the Revolution of 1905–1907
'. Soviet and East European studies. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1976. p. 34.

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