Czerwony Sztandar.
LARGE COLLECTION OF THE RED BANNER
Luxemburg, Rosa [editor and contributor]. Czerwony Sztandar. Organ Socjaldemokracji Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy. [Warsaw, and Krakow or Berlin]: July, 1909 - January, 1913.
Together with the special supplement number 5:
Z pola walki. Wydawnictwo Socjaldemokracji Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy. [Krakow]: March, 10, 1905.
19 issues, including a complete run from March 1910 to January 1913, and one special supplement reporting on the events of the 1905 revolution, large folio (supplement in small folio), each with 4 to 10 pages, most copies evenly a little browned, a few with creases and marginal tears; one issue still unopened.
A large collection of the SDKPiL’s extremely rare illegally published propaganda paper the Red Banner, which was founded by Rosa Luxemburg and her partner Leo Jogiches in 1902, including one of 13 supplements published during the height of the 1905 Revolution in Russia and Poland. Z pola walki number 5 (From the Battle Field) was printed in Krakow on fine, thin paper, in order to be smuggled into the revolutionary Russian part of Poland, and contains resolutions and appeals, reports on strikes and demonstrations and other mass actions.
Present are the following issues: No. 169, July 1909, no. 171, September, 1909, nos. 173 through to 190, March, 1910 - January, 1913. Number 176 was erroneously numbered 177, which is corrected in our copy in blue crayon. Number 177 has a printed errata slip pasted onto the first page; number 184 is still unopened. Three issues were printed outside Russian Poland, numbers 180, 182, and 185; they are marked Wydanie zagranizcne. These were printed in either Krakow or Berlin. The collection contains a duplicate of number 182.
The Czerwony Sztandar’s print run peaked during the 1905 revolution, with up to 18,000 copies printed, after a modest start in 1902, when the print run was 2000. During the years of persecution after 1906 the print run was again quite low: 2300. Due to the nature of the publication not many copies survived. The last issue of the paper, which appeared less frequently later on, was number 195, issued in 1918.
Żanna Kormanowa, Materiały do bibliografii druków socjalistycznych pp. 6-8 and p. 96 (Z pola walki); BUCOP I, p. 691 lists issues of 1911 and 1912 in the British Library only; not in OCLC; RLIN locates an incomplete run of issues from 1906 to 1913 in the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, an apparently uninterrupted run from 1903 to 1905 in the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, founded in Vilnius, now in New York City.
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