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Iskra

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Iskra (Spark) was the newspaper of Russian socialist emigrants in London about 1903.

Some of the staff were later involved in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.

Staff members:

lately: Printing: Blumenfeld.

source: L. Trotsky "My Life".