Iskra Iskra

Iskra - Definition and Overview

Iskra (Spark) was the newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants in London about 1903.

Iskra's motto was "Из искры возгорится пламя" (From a spark there will conflame itself a fire) — a line from the poem 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:

lately:

Printing: Blumenfeld.

Source: L. Trotsky "My Life".

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