Much has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper, whereas little ink has been spilled about his political interlocutors who unsuccessfully fought for control of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party during the Iskra period. To redress the balance, Richard Mullin has translated 25 documents from this period, most of which express a polemical attitude toward Lenin s views. They include articles from Rabochee Delo, the Jewish Bund's Poslednie Izvestiia the post-Lenin Iskra, pamphlets by Plekhanov...
Much has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper, whereas little ink has been spille...