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Muslim Socialist Committee of Kazan (MSK) was an important organsation which existed briefly in Kazan during the Russian Revolution.
It was the best known of a number of Muslim Socialist Committees set up between February and April 1917. It included in its ranks people of Menshevik, Bolshevik, Social Revolutionary and Anarchist views, who all, however, accepted a distinction between Russians and Muslims. They were largely former radical nationalists whose interest in Marxism was part of what is known as National Communism. They had a view of socialism tied to that of the Islamic umma and included land reform in their programme. They were very anti-clerical and hostile to the landowners.
[edit] MSK Activists
[edit] References
- Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: a revolutionary strategy for the colonial world By Samuel Enders Wimbush, Alexandre A. Bennigsen
