User:Braganza/Popular socialism
People's socialism in Eastern Europe originated in the 1890s as an effort to differentiate from traditional social democracy with basic ideological patterns modeled after those of the National-Social Association in Imperial Germany.
The most prominent parties were the People's Socialist Party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Poporanists in the Kingdom of Romania, the Popular Socialists and Narodniks in the Russian Empire, and the "National Socialist", understood as "people's socialist", Czechoslovak National Social Party in Czechoslovakia. During the 1920s they were active as observer parties in the Labour and Socialist International but never became full members, although Czechoslovak National Social Party later joined Radical International and its delegates were even among founding members of the Liberal International in 1947.[1] The poporanist-influenced National Peasants' Party joined the International Agrarian Bureau.
Czechoslovakia
[edit]Narodniks founded the Carpatho-Russian Labour Party of Small Peasants and Landless. It remained an ally of the ČSNS and ceased to exist with the division of Czechoslovakia.
Two minor parties claimed the legacy of the historical ČSNS, the Czech National Socialist Party (ČSNS 2005) and the National Socialists – Left of the 21st century (LEV21). Both of these merged into the original party in 2022.
Lithuania
[edit]A faction of the Lithuanian Democratic Party alongside Trudoviks and Esers founded the Lithuanian Popular Socialist Union (LSLS). The LSLS soon broke away into different parties like or the Lithuanian Popular Socialist Democratic Party (LSLDP) or the Socialist Revolutionary Party (LRSLP). The LSLDP soon merged with the Peasant Union into the Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union (LVLS) which was refounded in the early 2000s which eventually became the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS).
Romania
[edit]Founded by Constantin Stere in the early 1890s, Poporanism (popor, meaning "people" in Romanian) is distinguished by its opposition to socialism, promotion of voting rights for all and its intent to reform the Parliament and the farming system. The Labor Party was founded in 1917 and eventually broke into different factions, one of them being the Peasants' Party which itself merged into the National Peasants' Party. The Peasant Party's legacy was soon claimed by splinter groups of the PNȚ, all of which situated themselves more to the left than the latter: in early 1927, Nicolae L. Lupu formed Peasants' Party–Lupu; Stere left the PNȚ following an inner-party clash, and founded the Democratic Peasants' Party–Stere which later merged with another dissident faction, Grigore Iunian's Radical Peasants' Party. Democratic Peasants' Party was also the name taken by a post-World War II group led by Lupu as a new dissidence (after he had rejoined the PNȚ); it was favorable to a collaboration with the Soviet Union, and adhered to alliances formed around the Romanian Communist Party.
- ^ Holub, Ondřej (2017). "Na druhé koleji." Vnímání socialismu Československou stranou národně socialistickou (PDF) (in Czech). Hradec Králové: University of Hradec Králové. p. 103. Retrieved 15 November 2019.