ABSTRACT
After the Hague Congress of the International, the Russian revolutionary émigrés split into three major factions. One went with Marx, another with Bakunin, and a third began to take form around Peter Lavrov. Ever the healer and unifier, Lavrov tried to reconcile his countrymen and indeed the International at large. He published a new journal which he tried to use to bridge the gulf between Marxists and Bakuninists; this journal, Vpered! (Forward!), succeeded Narodnoe Delo—La Cause du Peuple as a Russian voice in the International. As he helped to build the myth of the Paris Commune, so Lavrov contributed to the legend of the First International. 1
