For other uses, see Iskra (disambiguation).

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 Mensheviks and was published until 1905. The average circulation was 8,000.

Iskra's motto was "Из искры возгорится пламя" ("From a spark a fire will flare up") — a line from the reply Vladimir Odoevsky wrote to the poem [http://www.rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/01versus/0423_36/1827/0432.htm by Pushkin addressed to the anti-tsar Dekabrists imprisoned in Siberia.

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

Staff members:

• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Georgij Valentinovic Plekhanov
• Vera Ivanovna Zasulich
• Pavel Borisovich Axelrod
• Julius Martov (Ilija Cederbaum)
• Aleksandr Nikolayevich Potresov

Later:

• Leon Trotsky

Printing: Blumenfeld.

Sources

• L. Trotsky "My Life"
• Soviet Encyclopedical Dictionary

See also

• Pravda

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