Petersburg League of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class
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| Meeting of the Kampfbund for the Liberation of the Working Class (February 1897). A short time later all those present were arrested by the tsarist secret police Okhrana . Alexander Malchenko was later removed from the photograph of the group of Lenin's comrades in arms. |
The Petersburg Combat League for the Liberation of the Working Class ( Russian союз борьбы за освобождение рабочего класса ) was founded in 1895 by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) and his then close friend Julius Martov . It was one of the first political workers 'organizations in Russia and one of the forerunners of the later Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDLP).
The leaders of the Kampfbund were Wassili Wassiljewitsch Starkow , Gleb Maximilianowitsch Krschischanowski , Alexander Leontjewitsch Maltschenko , Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Pyotr Kusmitsch Zaporoshez , Julius Osipowitsch Martow and Anatoly Alexandrovich Waneev .
The Kampfbund was writing revolutionary pamphlets and was busy preparing its own newspaper, the Rabotscheje Delo ( Workers' Matter ), when some of its members were arrested on the night of December 20th to 21st, 1895. It was later revealed that an alleged Marxist member, a dentist named Dr. Mikhailov, who worked for the Russian police. Mikhailov was found murdered shortly after the members of the Kampfbund were arrested in February 1897 .
Those arrested were convicted and some were sent into exile in Siberia .
Malchenko was arrested in 1929 by Stalin's political police GPU as a "counter-revolutionary" and shot on November 18, 1930 in Moscow. Therefore, it was retouched from a photo published in the 1930s .
literature
- Robert Service : Lenin. A biography . Publishing house CH Beck, Munich 2000.
- Bertram D. Wolfe : Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin. Three who made revolution . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
- Hermann Weber : Lenin . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1970.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two photographs and thousands of tragic fates . In: Neues Deutschland , January 18, 2014