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Much has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper, whereas little ink has been spilled about his political interlocutors who unsuccessfully fought for control of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party during the Iskra period. To redress the balance, Richard Mullin has translated 25 documents from this period, most of which express a polemical attitude toward Lenin's views. They include articles from Rabochee Delo, the Jewish Bund's Poslednie Izvestiia the post-Lenin Iskra, pamphlets by Plekhanov and Martov, the resolutions of Party meetings, as well as some very revealing private correspondence. Through the examination of these documents a clearer, more grounded, and better-rounded picture of the early Russian Social Democratic Labor Party can be obtained. Part of the Historical Materialism (HM) Book Series.

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Author:   Richard Mullin
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Volume:   84
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.838kg
ISBN:  

9781608465552

ISBN 10:   1608465551
Pages:   604
Publication Date:   14 June 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Names and Dates Preface Introduction 1. Programme of Rabochee Delo 2. Review of Lenin’s Tasks of the Social Democrats, Rabochee Delo No. 1 3. Announcement in Rabochee Delo No. 5 4. Plekhanov’s Vademecum for the Editorial Board of Rabochee Delo and Editorial Comments on the Protest of the 17 in Rabochee Delo No. 4 5. Documents of the April 1900 RSDLP Congress Attempt 6. Boris Krichevskii, ‘Economics and Politics in the Russian Workers' Movement’, Rabochee Delo No. 7 7. ‘A Historic Turn’, Listok Rabochee Delo No. 6 8. Resolution of an Émigré RSDLP Conference, June 1901, Geneva 9. Boris Krichevskii, ‘Principles, Tactics and Struggle’, Rabochee Delo No. 1 10. Alexander Martynov, ‘Exposure Literature and Proletarian Struggle’, Rabochee Delo No. 10 11. Constitution of the ‘Russian Iskra Organisation’ 12. Letters from Iulii Martov to the London Section of the Editorial board of Iskra 13. Report of the Fourth Congress of the Bund 14. Articles from Poslednie Izvestiia 15. Letter of Ekaterina Alexandrova to Lenin, Krupskaya and Martov 16. Pavlovich, Letter to Comrades about the Second RSDLP Congress 17. Resolution of the Second RSDLP Congress ‘Minority’ 18. Iulii Martov, The Struggle with the 'State of Siege' in the RSDLP 19. Georgii Plekhanov, ‘What is Not to Be Done’, Iskra No. 52 20. Georgii Plekhanov, ‘Something on “Economism” and “Economists”’, Iskra No. 53 21. Letter from the Urals and Plekhanov’s ‘Centralism or Bonapartism’, Iskra No 63 & No. 65 22. Georgii Plekhanov, ‘The Working Class and the Social-Democratic Intelligentsia’, Iskra No. 70 & 71 Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Richard Mullin completed his doctorate at the University of Sussex in 2010. His dissertation focused on the relationship between Lenin, the newspaper Iskra and the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.

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