Cherny Peredel, revolutionary organizations

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CHERNY PEREDEL (Black Repartition), a revolutionary populist organization that came into existence in the summer of 1879 after the split of Zemlya i Volya. Its founders were G.V. Plekhanov, V.I. Zasulich, L.G. Deutsch, P.B. Axelrod, V.N. Ignatov, O.V. Aptekman, Y.V. Stefanovich, M.R. Popov, et al. Whereas the program of the organization put a special emphasis on popularizing their ideas among peasants, its members mainly focused on propaganda among workers with up to 150 people grouped in workers' circles in St. Petersburg alone. An illegal printing office was organized in St. Petersburg to print Cherny Peredel magazine and Zerno workers' newspaper. Since the leaders of Cherny Peredel had to emigrate in the early 1880 under the threat of arrest, it was young members of the organization who were put at the head such as A.P. Bulanov, K.Y. Zagorsky, M.V. Trubnikova, M.K. Reshko, M.I. Sheftel, et al. and who opened the Workers' Fund Society in the autumn of 1881. Illegal meetings were held in secret at A.N. and A.P. Ulyanovs' (Srednaya Meschanskaya Street), K.K. Reshko's (3 Belozerskaya Street), and M.A. Klang's (Tavricheskaya Street). The arrests of 1880-82 weakened the organization, some of its members siding with Narodnaya Volya. While being abroad, the founders of Cherny Peredel organized Osvobozhdenie Truda , a Marxist group, in 1883.

Reference: Ольховский Е. Р. К истории "Черного передела" (1879-1881 гг.) // Общественное движение в пореформенной России. М., 1965. С. 124-178; "Народная воля" и "Черный передел": Воспоминания участников рев. движения в Петербурге в 1878-1882 гг. Л., 1989.

Z. P. Solovyeva. Aptekman Osip Vasilievich
Axelrod Pavel Borisovich
Axelrod Vladimir Ilyich
Bulanov Anatoly Petrovich
Deutsch Lev Grigorievich
Ignatov Vasily Nikolaevich
Klang Maria Alexandrovna
Plekhanov Georgy Valentinovich
Popov Mikhail Rodionovich
Reshko Konstantin Klavdievich
Reshko Maria Klavdievna
Sheftel M.I.
Stefanovich Yakov Vasilievich
Trubnikova Maria Vasilievna
Ulyanov Alexey Nikolaevich
Ulyanova A.P.
Zagorsky Konstantin Yakovlevich
Zasulich Vera Ivanovna
Grazhdanskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Nepokorennykh Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Tavricheskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Ольховский Е. Р. К истории "Черного передела" (1879-1881 гг.) // Общественное движение в пореформенной России. М., 1965
"Народная воля" и "Черный передел": Воспоминания участников рев. движения в петербурге в 1878-1882 гг. Л., 1989 Zemlya i Volya (Land and Liberty) of 1870s
Narodnaya Volya