M. Mysl'. 1983. 270 p. Researchers have turned to studying the history of Lenin's Iskra at all stages of Soviet historical science. An important result was the establishment of the problem structure. It is characterized by a formula that belongs to the Iskra editorial board itself (No. 18, 10. III. 1902): revolutionary thought, revolutionary organization, revolutionary cause. Indeed, along with the development of theoretical questions, Iskra's activities were aimed at creating an organization of professional revolutionaries and leading the revolutionary liberation movement. These main links of the problem are considered in a monograph by senior researcher of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Doctor of Historical Sciences K. N. Tarnovsky. One cannot but agree with the author that "the history of Lenin's Iskra belongs to such (for the beginning of the XX century) problems, in the development of which documentary publications are crucial" (p. 20). It seems, however, necessary to define more clearly the stage when documentary publications on the Iskra theme formed an integral system. The end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s should be recognized as such a milestone; at that time, the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU completed the publication of the three-volume Correspondence of V. I. Lenin and the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper with Social-democratic organizations in Russia on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin. 1901-1903" If the publication of internal editorial correspondence in the 1920s provided a solid documentary basis for the study of Iskra's theoretical activities, the published correspondence of the editorial board with Russian social-democratic committees and groups provides an opportunity for special development of the editorial board's organizational activities in connection with the growth of the revolutionary movement in Russia. Wit ... Читать далее