The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; Russian: Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya, RSDRP) was a Marxist revolutionary party established at its First Congress in Minsk from 1 to 3 March 1898, uniting disparate social-democratic groups to organize industrial workers for the overthrow of Tsarist autocracy and the establishment of proletarian socialism. [1] [2 …

