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Unknown Chapters in the History of “Vpered”1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2008
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The period 1870–1880 represents an important phase in the history of social movements in Russia. Within that decade ideas and groups merged whose influence can be discerned in the events that preceded and those that followed the upheaval of 1917.
Among those groups one of the more interesting was the so-called Lavrists, or vperedovtzy, named after the publication “Vpered” (Forward), founded and edited by Peter Lavrov (1823–1900) and first published in Zurich, Switzerland, where volumes I and II were brought out in 1873 And 1874 respectively, and then in London, where volumes III, IV And V (the last-named not under the editorship of lavrov) as well as a bimonthly edition of “Vpered” were published during 1874–1877. In addition, the printing office of “Vpered” also produced several books and pamphlets.
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page 53 note 1 Some of them adhered to ideas that conflicted with those of Lavrov.
page 53 note 2 See “Bulletin of the International Institute for Social History,” Amsterdam, Vol. I, 1937, pp. 98–102.Google Scholar Parts of the Smirnov collection were lost during 1940–1945, but this author had made copious notes from the originals prior to 1940.
page 53 note 3 This paragraph is based on “Narodniki-Propagandisty 1873–77 godov” in the “Materialy dlya istorii russkovo revolutzionnovo dvizheniya. X.” Published by the “Gruppa starykh narodovoltzev,” Geneva, August 1895.Google Scholar
page 54 note 1 As indicated in letters written by Smirnov to Alexander Buturlin (see Note 6) during the years 1872 and 1873, the decisive negotiations between Lavrov and the Bakuninists took place in mid-December 1872. Therefore the second version of the program must have been written some time earlier, but not before the fall of that year, when Lavrov learned that his first program had been written under a wrong assumption.
page 54 note 2 Alexander Buturlin, a Moscow acquaintance of Smirnov, lived at that time in Montreux, Switzerland. He became a member of the group of supporters of “Vpered.”
page 54 note 3 Undated letter of Lavrov to Bakunin, written shortly after an incident between Smirnov and Nikolai Sokolov in April 1873 (see Kulyabko-Koretzki, N.G., “Iz Davnikh Let,” Moscow, 1931, pp. 60–72).Google Scholar This letter has been preserved in the archives of the I.I.S.H.
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page 54 note 5 See Lavrov, P. L., “Izbrannye Sochineniya,” Vol. I, p. 83, Moscow, 1934.Google Scholar
page 56 note 1 The original is carelessly written.
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