Iskra
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Iskra (Spark) was the newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants in London about 1903.
Iskra's motto was "Из искры возгорится пламя" (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.
Some of the staff were later involved in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.
Staff members:
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Georgij Valentinovic Plekhanov
- Vera Ivanovna Zasulich
- Pavel Borisovich Axelrod
- Julius Martov (Ilija Cederbaum)
- Aleksandr Nikolayevich Potresov
later:
Printing: Blumenfeld.
Source: L. Trotsky "My Life".