Dagestan Socialist Group

The Dagestan Socialist Group (Russian: Дагестанская социалистическая группа, romanized: Dagestanskaya sotsialisticheskaya gruppa) was a political organisation in Dagestan during the rule of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus. It was one of two political groups in Dagestan, alongside the Islamist Dagestan National Committee. Located on the left wing of the political spectrum, the Socialist Group promoted opposition to Sharia law and land reform as its policies, leading the organisation and its allies to a landslide victory in the August 1917 regional elections in spite of it only consisting of 5–6 members at any time. Amidst the Battle of the North Caucasus during the Russian Civil War, the Socialist Group merged into the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in February 1919.