Iskra
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Iskra was a fortnightly political newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants established as the official organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
The first issue of Iskra
1950 Soviet postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the first issue of Iskra, and claiming Pravda as its continuation
Julius Martov
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Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum, better known as Julius Martov, was a Russian Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and a leader of the Mensheviks, the minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour P
Iskra
…via Romania, and reprinted on secret presses in Kishinev and the Caucasus. Using the networks created to write for and distribute the paper, Lenin and Julius Martov prepared organisationally for the Second Congress of the RSDLP. In 1903, following the split of the RSDLP, Chairman Georgi Plekhanov chose to seek…
Martov in 1910
Martov after his arrest in 1892
Members of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, 1895. Martov is seated on the right, next to Vladimir Lenin.
Martov after his arrest in 1896