South Russian Workers' Union
The South Russian Workers 'Union ( Russian Южнороссийский союз рабочих ) was the first workers' organization in Russia .
The union was organized in Odessa in 1875 by the revolutionary intellectual Yevgeny Saslavski (1844–1878). The union, which had followers in Rostov , on the Don , in Kharkov , Oryol and Taganrog , comprised about two hundred workers. The organization could only exist for one year and was then broken up by the tsarist police.
The aim of the federal government was “to propagate the idea of the liberation of the workers from the yoke of capital and the privileged classes” and to unite the workers for the “future struggle against the existing economic and political order”. The folk ideology of that time was influencing the federal government. For example, the members of the federal government decided to settle in the villages in order to agitate among the farmers.
Web links
- Article South Russian Workers' Union in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Collective, History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Berlin , 1960, p. 24