Iskra

Iskra (Spark) was the newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants in London about 1903.

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Iskra's motto was "?? ????? ?????????? ?????" (From a spark there will conflame itself a fire) — a line from the poem by Pushkin addressed to the anti-tsar Dekabrists imprisoned in Siberia.

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Some of the staff were later involved in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.

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Staff members:

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• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Georgij Valentinovic Plekhanov
• Vera Ivanovna Zasulich
• Pavel Borisovich Axelrod
• Julius Martov (Ilija Cederbaum)
• Aleksandr Nikolayevich Potresov

later:

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• Leon Trotsky

Printing: Blumenfeld.

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Source: L. Trotsky "My Life".

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