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On December a considerable number of League members were Arrest ed, Lenin among them; the first issue of ''Rabocheye Dyelo'' which was ready to go to press, was seized.

While in prison, Lenin continued to guide the work of the League. He sent letters and leaflets from Prison written in Cipher and wrote the pamphlet ''On Strikes'' (the Manuscript has not been found), and ''Draft and Explanation of a Programme for the Social-Democratic Party''.

The significance of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class lay, to use Lenin's expression, in its being the germ of a Revolutionary party that took its support from the Working Class and led the Class Struggle of the Proletariat .

The old members of the League who had escaped arrest took part in preparing and holding the First Congress of the RSDLP and in drawing up the Manifesto to that Congress . However, the long absence of the founding members of the League of Struggle, Lenin above all, who were in exile in Siberia , and the path of the party took a different direction. In the latter half of 1898 the control of the League fell into the hand of most avowed Economists-the Rabochaya Mysl.


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