New Current

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The New Current (

1905 Revolution
. Participants in the movement were called jaunstrāvnieki.

History

The beginning of the New Current is usually given as 1886, when the movement's newspaper,

Social Democratic newspaper before its permanent closure.[1]

Evaluation

The historian Arveds Švābe describes the New Current as "connected to the political awakening of the Latvian working class, its first organizations, and the propagandization of socialist ideas.".[2] Most historians point to what the painter Apsīšu Jēkabs called "the beginning of a cleft between the Latvian farmer and his farm hand" in the 1870s,[3] and by 1897 there were 591 656 landless peasants in what is now Latvia (compared to 418 028 smallholders and their dependents).

Their partial urbanization led to a growing proletariat, fertile ground for the ideas of western European socialism, and this coincided with a loss of momentum for the Young Latvians, whose ideas had been enfeebled by

Marxist literature into Latvia in two pieces of luggage in 1893: the work of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Kautsky. This "luggage with the dangerous contents," as the historian Uldis Ģērmanis called it, was the seed of the Latvian Social Democratic Party.[4]

References

  1. ^ Arveds Švābe: Latvijas vēsture 1800-1914. Uppsala: Daugava, 1958.
  2. ^ Latvju enciklopēdija. Stockholm: Trīs Zvaigznes, 1950-51
  3. ^ Arnolds Spekke. History of Latvia: An Outline. Stockholm: M. Goppers/Zelta Ābele, 1951.
  4. ^ Daina Bleiere, Ilgvars Butulis, Inesis Feldmanis, Aivars Stranga, Antonijs Zunda: Latvijas vēsture: 20. gadsimts. Rīga: Jumava, 2005.
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