Vpered [ at head':] En avant. Nr 1-18 [all published]. [ And':] Proletarii [ at head':] Le proletaire. Nr 1-26 [all published].

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.Large folio (44 x 30 cm). Issues between 4 to 8 pages. Bound in 1 volume half cloth, one issue loosely inserted. Printed in triple columns on varying types of paper. Complete runs of these weekly Bolshevik newspapers published in Geneva. After the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903 the Mensheviks seized control of its journal Iskra'. In December 1904 Lenin and his comrades Vorovskii, Lunacharskii and Krupskaia decided to publish a new journal. It continued the revolutionary tradition of the Iskra' and played an important role in the fight against Menshevism. It was the first Bolshevik weekly newspaper. Lenin contributed many leading articles. The Vpered'was published from January 4 to May 5, 1905. It was continued by the Proletarii', from May 27 to November 25. The significance of Vpered' in the history of the CPSU is defined by the fact that the paper was an ideological-political organ abroad that cooperated with the practical organ in Russia - the Bureau of Committees of the Majority - to give political and organizational shape to Bolshevism. Vpered' played an outstanding role in the struggle against Menshevism, the creation of a new kind of party, and the preparation of the Third Congress of the RSDLP. At its 22nd session, the Third Congress instructed the Central Committee to establish a new central organ of the party; it was to be called Proletarii'. In a special resolution concerning Vpered', the congress took note of the paper's role and significance and expressed its gratitude to the editorial board for its pioneering and energetic revolutionary activity (KPSS v rezoliutsiiakh, 7th ed., part 1, 1954, p.86).'*Zaleski p.332 & 325. Dekker & Nordemann Antiquarian Department, Catalogue 26 (1980): The two Russian revolutions. The libraries of Leon Bernstein and Boris Souvarine' 753 & 754. N° de ref. del artículo 14014

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