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Founding Congress in Minsk
- When
- March 1898
- Where
- Minsk
Nine delegates from various Marxist groups convened in Minsk in March 1898 to establish the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
The underground conference included representatives from the Jewish Labour Bund, the Workers' Newspaper in Kiev, and the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class in Saint Petersburg. These groups had formed in 1897. The congress marked the merger of these factions into a single party dedicated to overthrowing the autocracy.
Sources
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-17
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