Novoye Slovo was the title of two separate Russia

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n magazines published in Saint Petersburg

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, the first appearing between 1894 and 1897 and the second in the fall of 1917.

The first incarnation of Novoe Slovo was originally run by moderate narodnik

Narodnik

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s (populists). In April 1897 the magazine was taken over by Legal Marxists and edited by them until it was shut down by the Tsar

Tsar

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ist government in December 1897. It was followed by another Legal Marxist magazine, Nachalo

Nachalo

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, in January-June 1899.

Novoe Slovo contributors included prominent Legal Marxists Peter Struve, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky

Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky

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, Sergei Bulgakov

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 as well as revolutionary Marxists Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin

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, Julius Martov

Julius Martov

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 and Vera Zasulich

Vera Zasulich

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. Maxim Gorky

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, an increasingly popular realist

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 writer who was close to Russian Marxists, was also published in the magazine.

The title was used again in 1917 when the Russian Provisional Government

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 suppressed Zhivoye Slovo (The Live Word) in August and the magazine reappeared first as Slovo (The Word) and then as Novoye Slovo.