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Nasha Zarya

published in St. Petersburg from 1910 to 1914

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6966823 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nasha Zarya (Russian: Наша заря - meaning Our Dawn in English) was a legal Menshevik monthly, published in St. Petersburg, Russia from 1910 to 1914. Lenin described it as 'the liquidators' centre in Russia'.

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Nasha Zarya was started by the organizing committee, a leading Menshevik centre.

Notable articles

"The Contemporary Situation in Russia and the Fundamental Task of the Working Class Movement in the Present Moment" by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Rozhkov.

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The public source identifies “Nasha Zarya” as published in St. Petersburg from 1910 to 1914. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nasha, Zarya and published.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910, 1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nasha, Zarya and published providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6966823. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910 and 1914.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nasha Zarya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.