Iskra

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:

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

later:

• Trotsky

Printing: Blumenfeld.

Source: L. Trotsky "My Life".

See also

• Pravda