Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University1002410.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-1-42-50Research ArticleSocialist Revolutionary party and the Second InternationalLeonovMikhail I.<p>Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, professor of the Department of Russian History</p>mleonov40@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8513-8871Samara National Research University1304202228142502801202228012022Copyright © 2022, Leonov M.M.2022<p>The path of the Socialist Revolutionary party to the Second International was a thorny one. Russian social democrats were zealous in creating obstacles, primarily their representative in the International Socialist Bureau (IBS) G.V. Plekhanov. His efforts to the Socialist Revolutionary groups in the 90-ies of the XIX century denied the right of representation in the international socialist community. European political parties were mentally closer to the RSDLP, and their socialist competitors were wary. The Socialist Revolutionary had to work hard to convince the parties of the International of their adherence to the ideas of socialism and of the presence of connections with the masses. The Socialist Revolutionary Party established close contacts with the SME in 1901, and at the Amsterdam Congress (1904, August) achieved what it wanted, it was accepted into the Second International. The reports of the party to the Amsterdam and Stuttgart congresses of the International served as evidence of the mass character, adherence to the ideas of socialism. The leaders of the Socialist Revolutionaries, their emotional and verbose representative in the SME I.A. Rubanovich, took an active part in all the events of the International; the party became an equal member of the international socialist community. During the Basel Congress of 1912, her representative on the «commission of five» most influential parties was one of the compilers of the anti-war «Manifesto» of the International, supported by the socialists of the world. During the First World War, only a part of the party defended the ideas of internationalism. The III Congress of the Social Revolutionaries in the spring of 1917 called for the continuation of the war to a victorious end and the restoration of the II International.</p>партия эсеровII ИнтернационалконгрессМеждународное Социалистическое БюродокладSocialist Revolutionary PartyII InternationalCongressInternational Socialist Bureaureport[Lenin – Lenin V.I. Full composition of writings. Available at: http://bolshevick.org/lenin-v-i-polnoe-sobranie-sochinenij/. (In Russ.)][Leonov 1997 – Leonov M.I. (1997) Party of Socialist Revolutionaries in 1905–1907. Moscow, 512 p. Available at: https://vk.com/wall-2879585_502. (In Russ.)][Leonov 2016 – Leonov M.I. (2016) Party of the Social Revolutionaries in the First World War. In: Russian peasantry and the first world war. Moscow, pp. 270–283. (In Russ.)][Social movement 1909 – Social movement in Russia at the beginning of the XX century. Vol. 1. Saint Petersburg. Available at: https://www.prlib.ru/item/433527. (In Russ.)][Plekhanov 1923–1926 – Plekhanov G.V. (1923–1926) Compositions. Moscow; Leningrad. Available at: http://libelli.ru/marxinew/pl_ss_24.htm. (In Russ.)][Svalov 2006 – Svalov A.N. (2006) The section of Russia at the Amsterdam Congress of the II International, 1904. Voprosy Istorii = Questions of History, no. 9, pp. 171–175. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=9275730. (In Russ.)][Svalov 2010 – Svalov A.N. (2010) Section of Russia at the London Congress of the Second International (1896). Nauchnye vedomosti Belgorodskogo universiteta. Istoriya. Politologiya, no. 1 (72), pp. 167–169. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=15201330. (In Russ.)][Philosophical and literary heritage 1973 – Philosophical and literary heritage of G.V. Plekhanov: in 3 vols. Moscow. Available at: https://vk.com/wall-81495923_2445. (In Russ.)][Chernov 2008 – Chernov V.M. (2008) In the party of socialist revolutionaries. Memories of eight leaders. Saint Petersburg. Available at: http://ldn-knigi.lib.ru/R/Tshernow.htm. (In Russ.)]