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Origins

The Pravda is founded like a newspaper of the workers in 1912. The Bolchevik S begin the legal publication of the newspaper with Saint-Pétersbourg the April 22nd 1913 in a tended context. 400 000 workers strike on May first 1913, and of the letters of workers are published, poking the anger of the workmen. The Pravda is regarded as the successor of the socialist newspaper Iskra by the Communists.

Lénine, which controls the newspaper, places Joseph Stalin in the leading team. This one remains at this station until its exile in 1913. For this period, the more moderate leading line of the newspaper often enters in conflict with Lénine, and the editors refuse or censure sometimes its articles. The Russian government tries to stop the publication of the newspaper, but the Bolsheviks lay out of more than 40 000 regular readers and of a network of diffusers. The Pravda depends on the financial support of the workers.

Lénine lives then with Cracow and writes articles more and more, of tendency increasing anti-tsarist. When the newspaper is prohibited, the Bolsheviks continue to distribute it illegally.

The Pravda plays a big role in the revolution. The Révolution of February 1917 makes it possible the Pravda to reopen. Little time after its release in March 1917, Stalin turns over to his leading station, in collaboration with Lev Kamenev. After the return of Stalin and Kamenev, the Pravda takes a tone more reconciling with regard to the provisional government of Kerenski, which displeases to the readers. The next month, the Thèses of April define the analysis of Lénine on the political situation and the actions to be carried out. Lénine firmly condemns the provisional government and the leading line of the Pravda . A few days later, the Pravda changes tone, condemning in its turn Alexandre Kerenski and the other sympathizers of the provisional government, taxed “counter-revolutionaries”. Consequently, the Pravda follows the leading directives of Lénine. After the Revolution of October, Pravda is sold with almost 100 000 specimens daily.

The Soviet period

The offices of the newspaper are transferred to Moscow the March 3rd 1918. The Pravda becomes the official body of the Soviet Communist party. It will remain it until in 1991.

Several trades and administrations had their official journals. For example, the Izvestia (dealing with the foreign politics) are the body of the Supreme Soviet, the Trud is the publication of the trade-unionistic movement, the Komsomolskaya Pravda is that of the organization Komsomol, while the Pionerskaya Pravda is that of the Young Pioneers.

After the death of Lénine, the Pravda becomes a springboard for Nikolaï Boukharine, one of the leaders of the party. It acquires a political reputation of theorist there. In the same way after the death of Stalin and the vacuum of being able which is followed from there, Nikita Khrouchtchev uses the leading control of the Pravda to obtain the capacity vis-a-vis Gueorgui Malenkov, the editor of the Izvestia .

Although the contents of the Pravda are narrowly controlled by its editors, it is not impossible to detect the truth in the newspaper. Many readers become experts in art to guess the truth. The formulation of the articles is an important index to include/understand the message. The most important news is often mentioned briefly and placed in obscure headings. The pages of the back often contain information more proven than the pages of the recto. In the place of a bad news in the USSR, the newspaper speaks about a series of similar disasters in other countries.

External bonds

: Site of the '' Pravda '', in Russian
: Site of the '' Pravda '', in English

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