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Semën Ivanovich Kanatchikov wrote about his first hand experiences as a socialist revolutionary in A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semën Kanatchikov. This book was an autobiography that included how SDs and SRs collaborated in order to carry out the 1905 Russian Revolution with a revolutionary attitude and revolutionary actions. Based on Kanatchikov’s writings, the revolution of the SDs and SRs, which were “Marxist neighbors”, materialized as “The Demonstration” before the brief discussion of “The Traitor”. Unfortunately, the final theme in the book was the poorly mentioned 1905 Revolution, or Liberal Spring, that was critically organized by the“Marxist neighbors”.

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Both SDs and SRs exhibited a revolutionary attitude in late 19th century against the Russian Empire. The Social Democrats were members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, which was led by people including Vladimir Lenin and other Russian Marxist figures which focused on how socialism would be achieved in Russia. Despite the Menshevik and Bolshevik differences within the RSDLP, Marxist-Leninism became the predominant political philosophy that was developing in the 1890s, and this was an example of a their revolutionary actions. Many Socialist Revolutionaries and Social Democrats agitated against the Russian State, which was evidence they directly influenced the 1905 Revolution. Lenin’s revolutionary attitude had an end goal, which was widely shared within the RSDLP, became recognized throughout the Russian proletariat (working class) and peasantry as they seized power over the Russian bourgeoisie in order to create a dictatorship of the proletariat. Meanwhile, the Socialist Revolutionaries cooperated with the Social Democrats in demonstrations against the Russian government, and these exhibited their revolutionary attitudes and revolutionary actions. On the other hand, the workers and revolutionaries had an intriguing acceptance of religion in relation to

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