Iskra

The Iskra (Russian Искра - The Spark) was an early revolutionary newspaper of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia ( RSDLP ), the 01 appeared three years since 1900 / under the leadership of Lenin. Their goal was to bring together the various currents of the workers' movement in Russia and the formation of a common " consciousness" platform.

History

In December 1900, the first issue of Iskra was printed as an organ of the RSDLP. It does not appeared, as indicated by some sources, on 24 December 1900 even though it was completed in Typesetting and layout. The pressure was delayed, and the first issue of the paper came out in January 1901. Lenin had come from Munich to Leipzig, made the final editing of the Iskra; the first number of the paper could be published. Printing was done in the printing of Hermann Rau in Leipzig- Probstheida.

The way there but it was not easy. Lenin sat down by trying to print the newspaper in Germany, while Georgi Plekhanov, Switzerland had favored as the production site. German Social Democrats helped Lenin, got him quarters and allowed him to find in Probstheida a printing company in which the newspaper could be put secretly in Cyrillic letters. They also supported the illegal transport of the newspaper on the German -Russian border.

The editorial " The most urgent tasks of our movement " came from WI Lenin himself Iskra, founded by Lenin was " not just any workers 'newspaper, but made it his goal, the conscious sections of the Russian workers' movement gather around a Marxist program ".

From 1901 to July 1903 published a total of 44 issues of Iskra. The numbers 22 to 38 were printed in London in today's Marx Memorial Library. The well-known signature of Lenin What to do? ( Что делать? ) (1902 ) summarizes the content of the line of the newspaper together.

At the site of the printing of the first issue there was in GDR times a Iskra memorial.