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ORIGINS

When the magazine of the Saint Petersburg-based Legal Marxist s '' Novoye Slovo '' was suppressed by the government in December 1897 , their leaders began planning a new magazine. At first, the idea was to have Vladimir Posse (who was close to the Legal Marxists as well as to the Narodnik populists) take over a moderate populist magazine '' Zhizn '' (''Life'') and use it as a platform for Legal Marxism. However, when Posse became the editor of ''Zhizn'' in early 1899, the Legal Marxists' plans suddenly changed and they started they own magazine, ''Nachalo'', in January 1899 .


HISTORY

''Nachalo'''s editorial board consisted of Peter Struve , Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky , V. G. Veresayev, V. Ya. Bogucharsky, and A. M. Kalmykova. Contributors included Legal Marxists as well as revolutionary Marxists living in exile or abroad like Georgy Plekhanov , Vladimir Lenin and Vera Zasulich . In all, there were five issues published between January and May 1899, although the April issue was confiscated by the censors. Starting with issue 2, the magazine was supportive of Eduard Bernstein 's Revision of Marxism, which caused frictions with Plekhanov, an opponent of Bernstein's and the leader of orthodox Marxism in Russia.

The editors also made an attempt to build up a literary section in collaboration with Anton Chekhov and Russian Symbolists , but were unsuccessful, which made them turn to Maxim Gorky and early Russian Modernists . The magazine was closed down by the government in June 1899, and the Legal Marxists were forced to join Posse's '' Zhizn '' as originally planned.


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