The creation and activities of the working group of Socialist Revolutionaries in Yakutsk in 1917

Political parties played an important role in the revolutionary events of 1917 in Yakutia, with the Socialist-Revolutionary party being the most numerous and influential of the all-Russian ones. The article is devoted to the study of the history of the creation and activity of the working group of socialist revolutionaries in Yakutsk during the 1917 Revolution. The history of the Socialist-Revolutionary working group is of interest because the creation of the group was a manifestation of a split within the local Socialist-Revolutionary organization. The study was conducted on the basis of an analysis of the party press – the newspapers “Socialist” and “Voice of Labor”, materials from the National Archive of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) using historical, genetic, historical and comparative methods. The results of the study showed that the Socialist-Revolutionary organization in the Yakutsk region in 1917 was quite numerous, diverse in social composition, which led to the separation of a separate working group. The group of Socialist-Revolutionary workers was established in September 1917, enjoyed support among the workers, at the end of 1917. The members of the group began to publish their own print organ, the newspaper Golos Truda. According to the newspaper’s materials, the active participants of the working group during the beginning of its activity were identified: the Socialist Revolutionaries I.P. Petrunin, I.D. Frankevich, K.K. Mednitsky. The members of the group worked among the workers and held more left-wing views, compared with the leadership of the local Socialist Revolutionaries who were part of the regional authorities. The creation of the Socialist-Revolutionary working group in Yakutsk reflected the all-Russian tendency to split, which manifested itself in the Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1917. In the future, the leftist views of the members of the working group will allow them to join the supporters of the Soviet government and enter into an alliance with the Bolsheviks. In this scientific article, we have reviewed the history of the group’s creation and activities in 1917, and its activities in 1918 – 1920 require further research.

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