Southern Worker is a Social Democratic newspaper in Russian . It was produced illegally from January 1900 to April 1903. In total, 12 issues were published: the first issues were published by the Yekaterinoslav Committee of the RSDLP , the next by the Southern Worker Social Democratic Group, which brought together representatives of organizations from Yekaterinoslav, Kharkov, Smolensk, Chisinau, Nikolaev and other southern cities of the Russian Empire .
| Southern Worker | |
|---|---|
| Type of | newspaper |
| Publisher | Yekaterinoslav Committee of the RSDLP → Southern Worker Group |
| A country | Russian empire |
| Founded by | 1900 |
| Termination of Publications | 1903 |
| Political affiliation | Social Democratic Labor Party |
| Tongue | Russian |
Content
Views
The “Southern Worker” opposed “ economism ” and terrorism , however, in contrast to Lenin ’s plan to create a party based on the principles of centralism, he put forward a separatist principle based on the creation of regional associations. Also, the newspaper defended the need to deploy a mass revolutionary movement. At the Second Congress of the RSDLP in 1903, the delegates of the "Southern Worker" took the position of "center" [1] .
History
By January 1900, a group of Marxists formed in Yekaterinoslav, who founded the underground newspaper "Southern Worker". The first issue was printed in the city, after which the printing house was moved to Kremenchug . The group suggested that Lenin lead the newspaper, which was refused. The meeting of the newspaper editor Isaak Khristoforovich Lalayants with Lenin in Moscow was recorded by the security department of the empire. The surveillance established by Lalayants led to the underground Kremenchug printing house, where the authorities discovered two thousand printed copies of the second issue of the newspaper [2] . Mass arrests and searches followed, and Lalayants was arrested.
The two editors who remained at large, Sergey Kharchenko and Andrey Ginzburg, together with Efrem Levin, had released the third issue of the publication by November 1900. Then the composition of the editorial board changed: Levin was temporarily eliminated from it, but Osip Arkadyevich Yermansky joined, becoming in time to play a dominant role in the editorial office. In the spring of 1901, police arrested Kharchenko. During the search, encrypted addresses were found, which led to a new rout of the Southern Worker in the spring of 1902 [3] .
The remaining members of the editorial office announced their solidarity with the Iskra newspaper, a statement was published in the next issue. The group participated in the organization of the Second Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 [4] . At the congress, a decision was made to dissolve South Worker, the publication of the newspaper was discontinued [1] .
Literature
- Correspondence of V.I. Lenin and the party organs of the Party led by him with the Social Democratic organizations of Ukraine (1901-1905). K., 1964; History of the CPSU , vol. 1, M., 1964
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 “Southern Worker” . Great Soviet Encyclopedia . Date of treatment July 28, 2017.
- ↑ Wallet P.A. History of investigation in Russia. - 1996.
- ↑ Sinelnikov A.V. Ciphers and revolutionaries of Russia . www.hrono.ru. Date of treatment July 28, 2017.
- ↑ Lenin V.I. Full composition of writings. - Moscow: Publishing house of political literature, 1975.