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Why was the Marxist party of Russia called the "Russian Social Democratic Labour Party"? My understanding is that "social democrats" were considered to be moderate, whereas the Party was very clearly radical and revolutionary?

by /u/Ge0rgeBr0ughton in /r/AskHistorians

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