Viktor+Chernov

= Viktor Chernov = Viktor Chernov helped form the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary party. He thought that going to war was a terrible idea but if they were going to go to war that the soldiers should use their weapons against the royal family. He was a supporter of the revolution and he tried to get the people to unite. By the end of the 1880s he was involved in revolutionary activity. He attended the law faculty of Moscow University and in the early 1890s joined the narodniks; in 1894 he joined Mark Natanson's "People's Will" (Narodnoe pravo) group, an attempt to unite all the socialist movements in Russia, and with other members was arrested, jailed, and exiled. After spending some time organizing the peasants around Tambov, he went abroad to Zurich in 1899. He joined the Socialist-Revolutionary Party upon its founding in 1902 and became the editor of its newspaper Revolutionary Russia. He returned to Russia after the Revolution of 1905; after boycotting the elections for the First Duma, he won election to the Second Duma and became a leader of the SR faction.