''Rabocheye Delo'' (, ''The Workers' Cause'') was a non-periodical political newspaper and an organ of the Union of Russian Social Democrats Abroad. 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

Economists An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

. The political trend of ''Rabocheye Delo'' was indicated in its first issue: the struggle for the economic interests of the

proletariat The proletariat (; ) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian or a . Marxist ph ...

was proclaimed the basis of all social-democratic activity, while the political tasks were presented as a matter of a distant future.

Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

in his book '' What Is To Be Done?'' characterised the position of ''Rabocheye Delo'' in the following way: At the Second Congress of the

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP) or the Russian Social Democratic Party (RSDP), was a socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk, Russian Empire. The ...

(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 The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (LSEWC) was a Marxist group in the Russian Empire. It was founded in St. Petersburg by Vladimir Lenin, Julius Martov, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Anatoly Vaneyev, Alexander Malchenko, P. ...

, in late 1895. Its first issue was ready to go to press when it was seized by gendarmes during a raid on

Anatoly Vaneyev Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vaneyev ( – ) was an active participant of the revolutionary movement in the Russian Empire. Biography Anatoly Vaneyev was born in the family of an official. He went to the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Techno ...

'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 ''Rabochaya Mysl'' (, ''Workers' Thought'') was a Russian social-democrat newspaper and bearer of the Economism, Economist current. Sixteen numbers were published in total. The first two numbers were released in Saint Petersburg in October and D ...

'' (, ''Workers' Thought'').

Supplement

''Rabocheye Delo'' had a supplement called ''Listok "Rabochego Dela"'' (, ''"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

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