HISTORY OF CPSU(B)
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Tiny Marxist circles and groups in 1880s
CPSU(B)
that led the first socialist state of workers and peasants
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1875
South Russian Workers Union
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1878
Northern Union of Russian Workers
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1881
Narodniks kill Alexander II
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1883
Plekanov’s “Emancipation of Labor” group formed
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1885
Morozov mill strike
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3 erroneous concepts of Narodniks
fought against by Plekhanov
Capitalism was accidental
Peasants were the leading class
Heroes make history
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1884 and 1887
Two draft programs made by “Emancipation of Labor” group for aRussian Social Democratic Party.
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1870
Lenin was born in the city of Ulyanovsk.
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1887
Lenin entered the Kazan University, but was soon arrested and expelled from theuniversity for taking part in the revolutionary student movement.
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KAZAN
Lenin joined a Marxist circle formed by one Fedoseyev.
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SAMARA
first Marxist circle formed with Lenin as the central figure.
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1893
Lenin moved to St. Petersburg
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1895
Lenin united all the Marxist workers' circles in St. Petersburg (20) into a single
League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
with the task of
Forming closer connections with the mass working-class movementand of giving it political leadership
Passing from the propaganda of Marxism among the few politicallyadvanced workers to political agitation among the broad masses of theworking class on issues of the day.
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1895-99
Around 221,000 workers took part in strikes.
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League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
L
inked up the struggle of the workers for economic demands
--improvement of working conditions, shorter hours and higher wages --
with thepolitical struggle against stardom
F
irst body in Russia that began to unite Socialism with the working-class movement
When a strike broke out in some factory, the League of Struggleimmediately responded by issuing leaflets and Socialist proclamations.
Leaflets exposed the oppression of the workers by the manufacturers,explained how the workers should fight for their interests, and set forth theworkers' demands.
The leaflets told the plain truth about the ulcers of capitalism, the poverty of the workers, their intolerably hard working day of 12 to 14 hours, andtheir utter lack of rights. They also put forward appropriate political demands.
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With the collaboration of the worker
Babushkin
, Lenin at the end of
1894
wrote the firstagitational leaflet of this kind and an appeal to the workers of the Semyanmkov Works inSt. Petersburg who were on strike. In the autumn of 1895 Lenin wrote a leaflet for the
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