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» For other uses, see Iskra (disambiguation).
Iskra (Russian: Искра) means
Spark, was a political
newspaper of
Russian socialist emigrants established as the official organ of the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. The first edition was published in
Leipzig in
1900. Other editions were published in
Munich,
London, and
Geneva. Initially it was managed by
Vladimir Lenin. In
1903, after the split of the RSDLP, Lenin left the staff, the newspaper was seized by
Mensheviks and was published under the control of
Plekhanov until
1905. The average circulation was 8,000.
Iskra's
motto was "Из искры возгорится пламя" ("From a spark a fire will flare up") — a line from the reply
(External Link
) Vladimir Odoevsky wrote to the poem
(External Link) by
Pushkin addressed to the anti-tsar
Dekabrists imprisoned in
Siberia.
Some of the staff were later involved in the
Bolshevik revolution of October
1917.
Initial staff members:
Later:
Leon Trotsky (Lyov Davidovich Bronstein)
Printing: Blumenfeld.
Sources
L. Trotsky "My Life"
Soviet Encyclopedical DictionaryFurther Information
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