''Rabocheye Delo'' ( rus, Рабочее дело, ''The Workers' Cause'') was a non-periodical political newspaper and an organ of the

Union of Russian Social Democrats Abroad Union of Russian Social-Democrats Abroad was an organization of emigrant Russian socialists, set up in Geneva in 1894 on the initiative of the Emancipation of Labour group. It had its own printing press for issuing revolutionary literature, and pub ...

. It ran from April 1899 to February 1902. The printing house was in

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and the editorial office was in Paris. Its editors were Boris Krichevsky, Pavel Teplov, Vladimir Ivanshin and, from 1900, Aleksandr S. Martynov. A total of 12 issues were published in nine volumes. The editorial board of ''Rabocheye Delo'' was the foreign center of the

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. The political trend of ''Rabocheye Delo'' was indicated in its first issue: the struggle for the economic interests of the proletariat was proclaimed the basis of all social-democratic activity, while the political tasks were presented as a matter of a distant future. Vladimir Lenin, Lenin in his book ''What Is To Be Done?'' characterised the position of ''Rabocheye Delo'' in the following way: At the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), ''Rabocheye Delo'' represented the extreme right wing of the party.

Precedents

''Rabocheye Delo'' was originally founded by the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, in late 1895. Its first issue was ready to go to press when it was seized by gendarmes during a raid on Anatoly Vaneyev's house. Although 6 League members, including Lenin, were arrested, work continued on the League. In the second half of 1898, however, the League and ''Rabocheye Delo'' fell under control of the Economists through their paper, ''Rabochaya Mysl'' ( rus, Рабочая Mысль, ''Workers' Thought'').

Supplement

''Rabocheye Delo'' had a supplement called ''Listok "Rabochego Dela"'' ( rus, Листок "Рабочего Дела", ''"Rabocheye Delo"'s Paper'') that ran for eight issues, from June 1900 to July 1901. It was edited in Geneva.

References

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External links

All the issues of ''Rabocheye Delo''
(in Russian) at the Internet Archive.
All the issues of ''Listok “Rabochego Dela”''
(in Russian) at the Internet Archive. Newspapers published in the Russian Empire Publications established in 1899 Publications disestablished in 1902 Defunct newspapers published in Russia Russian-language newspapers