Zvezda (newspaper)
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Zvezda (Star) (Russian: Звезда) was a Russian newspaper which subsequently was incorporated into Pravda. Originally it was the legal organ of the Duma's Social Democratic faction.[1] The paper had separate sections on “In the World of Labor,” “Workers’ Life,” “The Workers’ Movement,” “The State Duma,” “Press Survey,” “Chronicle,” “Around and About Russia,” “The Provinces,” and “Life Abroad.”[1] The newspaper was published from December 29, 1910, to May 5, 1912.
The first editors were Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (Bolshevik), N. I. lordanskii (Menshevik), and I. P. Pokrovskii (from the Social Democratic faction of the Third State Duma).[1] N. G. Poletaev (Bolshevik) also played a major part in its production. From October 1911 the Bolsheviks had complete control of the paper and N. N. Baturin, M. S. Ol’minskii and K. S. Eremeev were on the editorial board. Among notable contributors to the newspaper were A. I. Elizarova-Ulyanova, V. V. Vorovsky, V. I. Nevsky, Demyan Bedny, A. A. Bogdanov and Maksim Gorky.