Kyivskaya mysl

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Logo of the newspaper in 1907

The Kijewskaja mysl ( Russian Киевская мысль , Kiev thought) was a liberal political-literary daily newspaper that appeared in Kiev from 1906 to 1918 in Russian. From 1917 the newspaper was available as a morning and evening paper. This provincial newspaper with the highest circulation in Russia at the time was distributed west of the Dnepr in the governorates of Kiev , Podolia and Volhynia .

overview

Maxim Gorky , Leon Trotsky , Vladimir Korolenko , Anatoly Lunacharsky and some Mensheviks such as the economist Nikolai Walentinov from Morschansk and the lawyer Alexander Martynov from Pinsk wrote for the newspaper on various occasions .

Konstantin Paustowski worked temporarily as a typesetter for this newspaper in Kiev .

The sheet was founded by the printer's owner Rudolf Lubkowski (Russian Рудольф Лубковский) and then continued by FI Bogdanow (Russian Ф. И. Богданов). The editors were A. Nikolajew (Russian А. Николаев) and I. Tarnovsky (Russian И. Тарновский). As a patron of the arts , where appropriate, jumped sugar producer Lew Israilevich Brodsky into the breach.

Initially, the Kiev idea took the side of the liberal intelligentsia and positioned itself against the Black Hundreds . Later, during the First World War , the tide was patriotic and, after the October Revolution , swung back to the anti - Bolshevik left-liberal- democratic direction. After Petlyura took Kiev, the newspaper ran out on December 15, 1918.

Trotsky

From Trotsky's memoirs it is clear that while he was illegally , in prison, in exile and in exile in Austria, he was forced to become a journalist. This includes his collaboration in the Kiev Thoughts . Trotsky writes on this in Chapter 17 ( Preparation for the New Revolution ) of his memoirs:

  • September 1912: “The Kijewskaja Mysl ... made me the offer to go to the Balkans as a war correspondent . This offer was all the more convenient for me ... I felt the need to stay away from the affairs of Russian emigration for at least a short time. The few months that I spent on the Balkan Peninsula were war months and they taught me a lot. "
  • January 1913: “The editorial staff of the Kijewskaya Mysl was determined enough to print my article, which described the Bulgarian bestialities against the wounded and captured Turks and exposed the conspiracy of the Russian press, which they concealed. That caused a storm of indignation in the liberal newspapers. "
  • anno 1913: "I made my debut in Kijewskaja Mysl with a large essay on the Munich Simplicissimus , which interested me so much for some time when Th. Th. Heine's drawings were still filled with a strong social spirit ..." ... “The Kijewskaja Mysl was the most widespread radical newspaper with a Marxist color in the south . Such a newspaper could only exist in Kiev, with its weak industry, undeveloped class antagonisms, and strong traditions of intellectual radicalism. One can ... claim that the radical newspaper in Kiev was created for the same reason that the Simplicissimus appeared in Munich. I wrote in the newspaper about a wide variety of topics , some of them daring in terms of censorship . Small articles were sometimes the result of great preparatory work. Of course I couldn't say everything I wanted in a legal, non-party newspaper. "
  • Spring 1914 in Vienna : “My income from Kijewskaja Mysl would have been enough for our modest existence. But there were months when working on Pravda left me with no chance of even writing a paid line. Then there was a crisis. My wife knew the way to the pawnshop well, and I have repeatedly carried the books I had bought in more plentiful days to the antiquarians. It happened that our modest furniture was seized because of back rent. We had two small children ... "

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1916, 70,000 copies were reached.
  2. ↑ Lunacharsky wrote under the pseudonym homo novus .
  3. ↑ See also Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian State .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trotsky, pp. 200 to 210