Iskras motto was "Из искры возгорится пламя" ("From a spark a fire will flare up") - a line from the reply Alexander Odoevsky wrote to the poem by Alexander Pushkin addressed to the anti-tsar Decembrists imprisoned in Siberia.
As outlined by Lenin in What Is To Be Done?, Iskra took the place of a central project to cohere the RSDLP nationally [REF].