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
Georgi Plekhanov
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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary. After beginning his revolutionary career as a populist, in 1883 Plekhanov established the Emancipation of
Iskra
…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 reconciliation with dissident party members who had walked out on the vote to reduce the number of seats on the editorial board from six…
Plekhanov c. 1900s
Plekhanov in the 1870s
Title page of On the Development of the Monistic View of History (1895)
Plekhanov c. 1890s