Emancipation of Labour

노동해방단

The first Russian Marxist organization, founded in 1883 in Geneva by Georgi Plekhanov, Vera Zasulich, Pavel Axelrod, and Leo Deutsch. The group translated and published major works by Marx and Engels into Russian, introduced scientific socialism to the Russian revolutionary milieu, and mounted a sustained critique of the Narodniks' peasant-centered revolutionary strategy, arguing that the industrial proletariat would be the leading force in Russia's coming revolution. It laid the theoretical foundations of Russian Social Democracy in the 1880s–1890s and served as the direct precursor to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), influencing Lenin's League of Struggle and the Iskra project. The group dissolved itself at the Second RSDLP Congress in 1903; most of its members subsequently aligned with the Menshevik wing.