FORMATION OF THE SYSTEM FOR REGULATION OF SOVIET PRESS

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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Current Information Archive Peer review guidelines Contacts Address: Pr. Mira, 10, Vladikavkaz, 362040, RNO-A, Russia E-mail: soigsi@mail.ru	DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2022.85.46.007 FORMATION OF THE SYSTEM FOR REGULATION OF SOVIET PRESS Zaseev, Georgy A. Izvestia SOIGSI. 2022. IIS 46 (85). Abstract: The article discusses the process of formation of special institutions for regulating the activities of the media at the initial stage of the existence of Soviet power in Russia. The relevance of the work lies in the fact that modern historiography does not pay due attention to the theme of the formation of the Bolshevik press during the formation of Soviet power. There is a need to revise the history of the formation and development of the system of regulatory bodies of the Soviet press based on modern methodology and taking into account the achievements of domestic and foreign historiography. The Bolsheviks paid great attention to how their media distribution network would function. They pinned great hopes on mass periodicals as an almost perfect means of propaganda. The article tells about the initial stage of the formation of Soviet printed periodicals, starting from the period when it was in an illegal status and had to be published outside the Russian Empire. The article deals with the main resolutions adopted by the Soviet government in relation to mass printed periodicals. Various documents and resolutions of the Bolshevik government clearly show that the new government pursued a policy of complete centralization in the media. The decrees of the Soviet government help to understand well the logic of the RCP(b) and its leaders in the development of laws and regulations that were aimed at controlling the media in the realities of the new Soviet state. It also analyzes various provisions put forward by the main ideologist of the Bolshevik party V.I. Lenin on the tasks of the Soviet party press. Attention is paid to the issue of the struggle of the Soviet government with the mass newspaper periodicals of hostile parties that openly opposed the young state and carried out anti-revolutionary agitation. Examples are given of how the RCP(b) fought against anti-people agitation and criminal activities committed through periodicals. The article tells about the formation and activities of the Russian Telegraph Agency and other Soviet organizations involved in the dissemination of information. Particular attention is paid to the activities of censorship bodies, as well as bodies that were responsible for distributing newspapers throughout the RSFSR. The study was carried out on the basis of general historical methods and taking into account the principles of historicism, consistency and objectivity. In the course of the study, a conclusion was made about the importance for the Soviet leadership of special press regulatory bodies that exercise tight control over the production and dissemination of socially significant information. Keywords: mass periodicals, party press, nationalization of the press, Tsentropechat, ROSTA, bourgeois press, censorship Download the full text + References 1. Ovsepyan, R.P. Istoriya noveishei otechestvennoi zhurnalistiki (fevral’ 1917-90-e gg.) [The history of the latest Russian journalism (February 1917-1990s)]. Moscow, Moscow State University, 1999. 304 p. 2. Kuznetsov, I.V. Istoriya otechestvennoi zhurnalistiki (1917-2000). 3-e izd., ispr. [History of national journalism (1917-2000). 3rd ed., rev.]. Moscow, Flinta: Nauka, 2006. 640 p. 3. Brylyakov, N. A. Rossiiskoe telegrafnoe… [Russian Telegraph...]. Moscow, Mysl’, 1976. 118 p. 4. Magometov, A.A. Bol’shevistskaya pechat’ v bor’be za ustanovlenie Sovetskoy vlasti na Tereke, 1917-1920 gg. 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