The ''Spilka'' ( - Ukrainian Social-Democratic Union) was a Ukrainian

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political organization which was active in parts of the Ukrainian ethnic territory ruled by the

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History

Spilka was founded in December 1904. Having broken away from the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, members of Spilka oriented their propaganda work among on Ukrainian workers and peasants. It entered the

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as an autonomous regional organisation. In the inner-Party struggle of the R.S.D.L.P. Spilka sided with the

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together with the Jewish Bund. By 1907 the organization had almost 6,000 members and was an important part of the Menshevik Party in Ukraine. It broke up in the period of reaction. In 1912 there were only small disconnected groups of the Spilka and by then most of its members had turned nationalists. First two issues of

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's ''Pravda'' (

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) were published as an organ of the ''Spilka'' in October and December 1908.Lenin: The Present Situation in the R.S.D.L.P
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References

Defunct socialist parties in Ukraine Russian Social Democratic Labour Party {{Ukraine-party-stub