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Vpered - First Bolshevik weekly newspaper, published in Geneva from Dec. 22, 1904 (Jan. 4, 1905) to May 5 1905. Organ of the first Bolshevik central organization—the Bureau of Committees of the Majority.
Vpered was founded after the Mensheviks seized control of the central organ of the RSDLP, Iskra. The decision to publish Vpered was made at a Bolshevik meeting on Nov. 29 (Dec. 12), 1904. The name of the newspaper was suggested by Lenin. A total of 18 issues were published. The members of the paper’s editorial board were V. I. Lenin, V. V. Vorovskii, A. V. Lunacharskii, and M. S. Ol’minskii, and the secretary of the editorial board was N. K. Krupskaia, who conducted all correspondence with Russia. Vpered revived the revolutionary tradition of Lenin’s Iskra, waging a struggle against opportunism and for strengthening the proletarian revolutionary party. Lenin contributed many leading articles to the paper, as well as a large number of notes on a variety of subjects, and he was closely involved in the editorial work—surviving manuscripts contain many of his corrections and additions. More than 40 articles by Lenin were published in the paper. The first issue alone contained “The Autocracy and the Proletariat” (an editorial), “On Good Demonstrations of Proletarians and Poor Arguments of Certain Intellectuals,” ’Time to Call a Halt,” and other articles by Lenin. He emphasized that “the line of the newspaper Vpered is the line of the old Iskra. In the name of the old Iskra, Vpered will resolutely combat the new Iskra”.
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