THE SARATOV BLOC OF THE BOLSHEVIKS AND THE LEFT 
SOCIALISTS-REVOLUTIONARIES IN MAY-JULY 1918 

Starikov Sergei Valentinovich, Doctor of historical sciences, professor, sub-department of Russian history, Mari State University (1 Lenina square, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia), sv.starikov@yandex.ru

947.084.2 (470.41-25) «1918»

10.21685/2072-3024-2017-2-5

Background. The author analyzes a political bloc between the Bolsheviks and the left SRS in Saratov and Saratov region in the spring and summer of 1918. The study reveals the peculiarities of the political union of the two Soviet parties and the process of forming a single-party system of the Soviet power in Russia at the final stage of the Great Russian revolution of 1917–1918.
Materials and methods. The problem was studied on the basis of published and archival sources, periodicals and memoirs of participants of the events. The author conducted a comparative-historical study of the development of the revolutionary process in the center and in the region.
Results. The article reveals the peculiarities of functioning of the political bloc of the Bolsheviks and the left socialist-revolutionaries in Saratov region and analyzes the possibility of development of a two-party system of the Soviet power in the center and in the region in the beginning of the Civil war in the Volga region.
Conclusions. The author considered the ideological and political views of the Saratov Bolsheviks and the left SRS in the context of disagreements between the leadership of the RCP(b) and PLSR on internal policy of the Soviet power in the spring and summer of 1918. Special attention was paid to the position of Saratov left parties on the issues of food, peasants and the events in Moscow on July 6th–7th, 1918.

bolsheviks, left socialist revolutionaries, Soviet power, food crisis, committees of the poor

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