League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class

The St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (Russian: Союз борьбы за освобождение рабочего класса, Sojuz borʹby za osvobozhdenie rabochego klassa, known sometimes in English by the initials SBORK) 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. Zaporozhets, V. Starkov and others in the autumn of 1895. It united twenty different Marxist study circles, but Lenin dominated the league through the 'central group'. Its main activity was agitation amongst the workers of St Petersburg and the distribution of socialist leaflets to the factories there.

League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class

The St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (Russian: Союз борьбы за освобождение рабочего класса, Sojuz borʹby za osvobozhdenie rabochego klassa, known sometimes in English by the initials SBORK) 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. Zaporozhets, V. Starkov and others in the autumn of 1895. It united twenty different Marxist study circles, but Lenin dominated the league through the 'central group'. Its main activity was agitation amongst the workers of St Petersburg and the distribution of socialist leaflets to the factories there.