EVENT INFORMATION

17
April
1912

The Lena Goldfields massacre sparks protest across Russia

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📅 17 April 1912 📍

Troops fired on striking goldfield workers, killing and wounding scores. Lenin and Bolshevik publications treated the massacre as evidence of state violence and renewed labor militancy; the miners’ own organizing and demands remain central to the event. Gregorian date; contemporary Russian accounts also used the Julian calendar.

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🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

Lena goldfield workers

imperial troops

Vladimir Lenin

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Lena Goldfields

Pravda

Russian imperial state