New Current

The new flow (in Latvian: Jaunā Strava; Members: jaunstrāvnieki ) was a broad social left, and later social-democratic political movement in Latvia output of the 19th and early 20th century, which reached its climax and conclusion in the Revolution of 1905. It has shaped the history of Latvia after the first, led by the Young Latvians national revival.

The historian Arveds Švābe describes the new flow as the " political awakening of the Latvian working class, their first organizations and the spread of socialist ideas connected " ( Latvju enciklopēdija Stockholm. Zvaigznes Tris, 1950-51 ). Many historians to show what the painter Apsīšu Jēkabs " the breaking up of a crack between the Latvian farmer and his servant " named in the 1870s ( Arnold Spekke, History of Latvia ). In 1897 stood at today's Latvian territory only 418028 small farmers and landless agricultural laborers dependent 591656 over. Their exodus led to a growing proletariat, which was a fertile breeding ground for the coming of Western Europe socialist ideas. At the same time lost the movement of the Young Latvians, whose ideals were weakened by national romanticism, momentum, because he had opened a chasm between the upper middle class and the poor, after the leading nationalists arrested and this time the country had been exiled.

Rainis smuggled 1893 in two pieces of luggage German Marxist literature into the country: writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky. This " baggage with his dangerous content ", as mentioned by the historian Uldis Ģērmanis, was the seed of the Latvian Social Democratic Party.

Swell

• Arnold Spekke: History of Latvia: An Outline. Stockholm: M. Goppers / Zelta Ābele, 1951.
• Arveds Švābe: Latvijas vēsture 1800-1914. Uppsala: Daugava, 1958.
• Arveds Švābe, ed: Latvju enciklopēdija. Stockholm: Tris Zvaigznes, 1952-1953.

• Latvian history
• Policy ( Latvia)