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''Iskra'' (Spark) was a political Newspaper of Russian Socialist emigrants. The first edition was published in Leipzig in 1900 . Other editions were published in Munich , London , and Geneva . In 1903 , the newspaper was seized by Menshevik s and was published until 1905 . The average circulation was 8,000.

Iskra's addressed to the anti-tsar Dekabrist s imprisoned in Siberia .

Some of the staff were later involved in the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 .

Staff members:

Later:

Printing: Blumenfeld.


SOURCES

  • L. Trotsky "My Life"

  • Soviet Encyclopedical Dictionary



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