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[MEGAPHONE OF THE REVOLUTION] Izvestiya

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Izvestiya Tsentral’nogo Ispolnitel’nogo Komiteta i Petrogradskogo Soveta rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov [i.e. The News of the Central Executive Committee and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies]. Petrograd, 1917. #260 (24 December). 8 pp. 16,5х11,6 in.
First year of issue.

Izvestiya Tsentral’nogo Ispolnitel’nogo Komiteta Sovetov krestianskikh, rebochikh i soldatskikh deputatov i Petrogradskogo Soveta rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov [i.e. The News of the Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Peasants’, Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies]. Petrograd, 1918. 26х22 in.

1. #7 (271). January 11, 1918. 4 pp.
2. #8 (272). January 12, 1918. 6 pp.
3. #9 (273). January 13, 1918. 4 pp.
4. #10 (274). January 14, 1918. 6 pp.
5. #11 (275). January 16, 1918. 6 pp.
6. #12 (276). January 17, 1918. 4 pp.
7. #16 (280). January 21, 1918. 4 pp.
8. #17 (281). January 23, 1918. 4 pp.
9. #18 (282). January 24, 1918. 6 pp.
10. #19 (283). January 25, 1918. 6 pp.
11. #20 (284). January 26, 1918. 4 pp.
12. #21 (285). January 27, 1918. 4 pp.
13. #22 (286). January 28, 1918. 6 pp.
14. #24 (288). January 31, 1918. 4 pp.
15. #32 (296). February 23 (10), 1918. 4 pp.
16. #33 (297). February 24 (11), 1918. 6 pp.

Izvestiya Vserossiiskogo Tsentral’nogo Ispolnitel’nogo Komiteta Sovetov krestianskikh, rabochikh, soldatskikh, kazach’ikh i Petrogradskogo Soveta rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov [i.e. The News of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Peasants’, Workers’, Soldiers’, Cossacks’ and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies]. Petrograd, 1918. #39 (303). March 3, 1918. 4 pp. 26х22.

Very good, foxing, creases and occasional small tears. Extremely rare in such condition.

The newspaper, born during the bourgeois revolution of 1917, became one of the main publications of the new era. Izvestiya appeared on the day when the Provisional Committee of the State Duma declared its assumption of power and at the same time the first meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies was taking place. The first issue was published on March 13, 1917, and included a text with a promise to fight for the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, "elected on the basis of universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage". The newspaper instantly became popular - it published not only exclusive information, but also directly participated in historical events all these 100 years from the moment of its publication. From August 1, 1917, the newspaper began to be published under the name Izvestiya of the Central Executive Committee and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (and throughout its existence it changed titles several times).

The political direction of the newspaper until October 1917 was determined by the position of the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, who at that time occupied a leading position in the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and in the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK). The newspaper pages of 1917 preserved evidence of the polemics of those days. In the end, October won - both in the editorial office and in the country. With the victory of the October Revolution, the leadership of the Izvestiya newspaper passed into the hands of the Bolsheviks. Izvestiya became the official printed organ of the Soviet government. The most important documents of the October Revolution - the Decree on Peace and the Decree on Land - were published on the pages of the publication. The first in-house correspondents in the Soviet press also appeared at Izvestiya.

Describing the incredible chaos of that time, the first editor of Izvestiya, Yuri Steklov (1917-1925), recalled that the newspaper settled in the Kopeyka publishing house of the famous millionaire publisher Ivan Sytin. He always sympathized with the revolutionary movement and did a lot to educate the people (for example, he published Russian classics in cheap mass series). The workers occupied the printing house a few hours before the decision of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies and began publishing the newspaper - a national newspaper is the best way to convey the position of the authorities to "the very outskirts". It is obvious that the typesetters were in a hurry: sometimes commas and prepositions are missing from the text.
Steklov was not only a professional revolutionary and organizer of the newspaper business, but also a brilliant publicist: he personally wrote the legendary Decree No. 1 of the Petrograd Soviet "To the Population of Petrograd and Russia" from the newly formed Soviet of Workers' Deputies, which went down in the history of the newspaper and the country. The style of his editorials (colleagues called them "steklovitsy") was recognizable at first glance. It was they who formed the unique image of Izvestiya in those years.

Our issues include news, materials about 'the war internal and external' (meaning the emerging Civil war and WWI), peace negotiations, aviation, political emigrants, retelling of the meetings of the Central Election Commission, quoting speeches of party leaders, new government orders, news from regions, foreign news, telegrams and letters, political reviews, church and state divide, personal ads, “Polish counter-revolution in Russia”, "Food for Russia from America", "Attempt to take V.I. Lenin (Ulyanov) away from Petrograd", Decree on the introduction of the Western European calendar, Decree on the nationalization of the merchant fleet, Decree on Health Insurance, Decree on the establishment of the Commissariat for Muslim Affairs, Decree on the establishment of the Jewish Commissariat, and others.

Price: $1,950.00