Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

514 NOTES565758Zarya (Dawn)—a Marxist theoretical and political magazinepublished by the editors of Iskra in 1901-02. The following articlesby Lenin were published in it: “Casual Notes”, “The Persecutorsof the Zemstvo and the Hannibals of Liberalism”, the first fourchapters of The Agrarian Question and the “Critics of Marx” (underthe title of “The ‘Critics’ on the Agrarian Question”), “Review ofHome Affairs”, and “The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy”. Four issues of the magazine appeared. p. 99Iskra (The Spark)—the first all-Russian illegal Marxist newspaper,founded by Lenin in 1900. After the Second Congress of theR.S.D.L.P. it became the Central Organ of the Party. Lenin’sreference to the old Iskra applies to issues No. 1 to No. 51 of thepaper. After that Iskra became the factional organ of the Mensheviks.p. 99The Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will) group, whose members wereknown as Narodovoltsi, came into existence in St. Petersburgin the autumn of 1891. Among its original membership wereM. S. Olminsky (Alexandrov) N. L. Meshchervakov, Y. M. Alexandrova,A. A. Fedulov, and A. A. Yergin. The group adheredto the Narodnaya Volya programme. Its press issued a number ofillegal pamphlets and leaflets, Worker’s Miscellany, and two issuesof Letuchy Listok (The Leaflet). The group was suppressed by thepolice in April 1894 but shortly resumed its activities. At thatperiod it was in process of abandoning Narodnaya Volya views forSocial-Democracy. The last issue of Letuchy Listok, No. 4, whichappeared in December 1895, showed clear signs of Social-Democraticinfluence. The group established contact with the St. PetersburgLeague of Struggle for the Emancipation of the WorkingClass, printed several of the League’s publications (for example,Lenin’s Explanation of the Law on Fines Imposed on Factory Workers),and made arrangements with the League for the joint publicationof the newspaper Rabocheye Dyelo. Arrangements were alsomade to use the group’s press to print Lenin’s pamphlet On Strikes,which was smuggled out of prison in May 1896 (the manuscript isstill missing). This plan did not mature, however, owing to thediscovery and suppression of the printing-press by the policeand the arrest of members of the group in June 1896, after whichthe group went out of existence. Eventually some of its members(P. F. Kudelli, N. L. Meshcheryakov, M. S. Olminsky, and others)became active figures in the R.S.D.L.P., the majority, however,joining the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.The Narodnoye Pravo (People’s Right) group, whose memberswere known as Narodopravtsi, was an illegal organisation of Russiandemocratic intellectuals founded in the summer of 1893 by theformer Narodovoltsi O. V. Aptekman, A. I. Bogdanovich, A. V. Gedeonovsky,M. A. Natanson, N. S. Tyutchev, and others. TheNarodopravtsi made it their aim to unite all opposition forces forthe fight to win political reforms. The organisation issued two programmaticdocuments—“The Manifesto” and “An Urgent Issue”. It