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Pravda

Soviet and Russian newspaper

Entitygovernment gazette daily newspaper autonomous non-commercial organizationQ183644

Instance of: government gazette
, daily newspaper
, autonomous non-commercial organization
Country: Russian Empire(since 1912)
, Russian Republic
, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
+2 more
Founded: 1912
Website: gazeta-pravda.ru
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Pravda is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The first issue of Pravda was published in Vienna on October 3, 1908, with Leon Trotsky serving as its editor. Designed as an illegal, non-factional Marxist newspaper, it was smuggled across the border into Russia to unify the fractured Russian Social Democratic movement. In April 1912, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik faction hijacked the highly popular name and style, launching their own legal daily workers' newspaper called Pravda in St. Petersburg. It emerged as the leading government newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.

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Title: Правда
Pravda
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1.Stated in ISSN Portal
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Owned by: Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Newspaper format: broadsheet
Headquarters: Moscow
Political alignment: far-left politics
Quantity: 100,300
Main subject: news
economics
politics
Language: Russian
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Founded by: Vladimir Lenin
Political ideology: communism
Different from: pravda.ru
Pravda
Publication interval: 1 days
Publisher: Q96575715(since 2002)
Pravda(1929–1991)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Country of origin: Russia
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1.Stated in ISSN Portal
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Soviet Union
Started: 1912
Awards: Order of the October Revolution(1972)
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1.Stated in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
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Order of Lenin(1962)
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1.Stated in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
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Order of Lenin(1945)
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1.Stated in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
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Issuing agent of work: Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union(1917–1991)
Communist Party of the Russian Federation(since 1997)
Parent: Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Category for employees of the organization: Q117349951
Dissolved: September 6, 1991
Editor-in-chief: Boris Komocki
Pyotr Pospelov
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1.Stated in Q137732450
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Leonid Fedorovich Ilyichev(1951–1952)
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1.Stated in Q137170397
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Dmitri Shepilov(1952–1956)
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1.Stated in Q137170397
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Ivan T. Frolov(1989–1991)
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1.Stated in “I Was Delighted and Aghast at the Treasure Trove of Materials on Russian Genetics”
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