Intelligentsia and members of Socialist Revolutionary Party (beginning of XX century - 1917)
At the beginning of XX century a considerable part of the Russian intelligentsia was opposed to the tsarist autocracy. By the socioeconomic structure intelligentsia was heterogeneous. Its top layers adjoined bourgeoisie and usually entered into liberal movement. But the most numerous part of intelligentsia was a petty-bourgeois one: petty employees, doctors, teachers and etc. The elite of the Socialist Revolutionary Party were formed from these levels of population. Intelligentsia was at the head of the Socialist Revolutionary Party during all periods of its existence. Before the February revolution the party was revolutionary. However after the overthrow of the tsarist government intelligentsia became very reformist. The party elite put off decision of the main questions until the convocation of Constituent Assembly. This policy leaded to separation from the party of working people, intelligentsia and to the party split.