Nash Put (1913)
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Nash Put was a daily newspaper
published in Moscow
between September 7-25 1913. It functioned as a legal organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
Lenin had argued in the summer of 1912 that an initiative to start a legal workers’ newspaper in Moscow should have been undertaken. However, the fundraising campaign for the new publication did not start until November that year. In call titled a 'Letter from a Group of Moscow Workers' appeared in Pravda
no. 176 that month. The Pravda article called for collections of fund to start the new publication. 395 workers groups made contributions to the campaign. However, the launching of the publication was stalled for some time, as the Bolshevik nucleus organizing the effort were arrested.
The first issue of Nash Put appeared on September 7. The paper became widely spread amongst Moscow workers, and had a daily edition of 17-20 000.
Lenin took an active part in the Nash Put. Among the articles by Lenin published in Nash Put were:
Amongst the other contributors to Nash Put were Maxim Gorky
, Demyan Bedny
, M. S. Olminsky, I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov, Joseph Stalin
and the Bolshevik deputies to the Fourth Duma, A. Y. Badayev, F. N. Samoilov and N. R. Shagov.
Nash Put was banned on September 25. In protest of the closure of the publication a strike was launched by workers groups in the city, calling for a lifting of the ban. The ban was, however, not lifted.
Newspaper
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published in Moscow
Moscow
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between September 7-25 1913. It functioned as a legal organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
Lenin had argued in the summer of 1912 that an initiative to start a legal workers’ newspaper in Moscow should have been undertaken. However, the fundraising campaign for the new publication did not start until November that year. In call titled a 'Letter from a Group of Moscow Workers' appeared in Pravda
Pravda
Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....
no. 176 that month. The Pravda article called for collections of fund to start the new publication. 395 workers groups made contributions to the campaign. However, the launching of the publication was stalled for some time, as the Bolshevik nucleus organizing the effort were arrested.
The first issue of Nash Put appeared on September 7. The paper became widely spread amongst Moscow workers, and had a daily edition of 17-20 000.
Lenin took an active part in the Nash Put. Among the articles by Lenin published in Nash Put were:
- The Russian Bourgeoisie and Russian Reformism
- The Role of Social Estates and Glasses in the Liberation Movement
- Class War in Dublin
- A Week after the Dublin Massacre
- Questions of Principle in Politics
- Harry Quelch
Amongst the other contributors to Nash Put were Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
, Demyan Bedny
Demyan Bedny
Demyan Bedny, was the pen name of Soviet Russian poet, Bolshevik and satirist Yefim Alekseevich Pridvorov .-Life:Efim Pridvorov was born to a poor family in Gubovka, in what is now Kirovohrad Oblast in Ukraine. He attended the village school followed by a feldsher training college in Kiev. This...
, M. S. Olminsky, I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov, Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
and the Bolshevik deputies to the Fourth Duma, A. Y. Badayev, F. N. Samoilov and N. R. Shagov.
Nash Put was banned on September 25. In protest of the closure of the publication a strike was launched by workers groups in the city, calling for a lifting of the ban. The ban was, however, not lifted.