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Bednota
Bednota ( , "Poverty" or "The poor") was a daily newspaper designed and focused toward a peasant readership that was issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, Russia, from March 1918 to January 1931. It has been described as the first Soviet newspaper "designed primarily for the lower-class or common reader". One of its predecessors was the Petrograd-based newspaper Derevenskaya Bednota, which Soviet leadership forced to merge with Bednota. Two additional newspapers, Soldatskaya Pravda, printed in Petrograd and Derevenskaya Pravda, printed in Moscow, were also merged with Bednota in 1919, per a decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party for this to occur.
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Bednota ( , "Poverty" or "The poor") was a daily newspaper designed and focused toward a peasant readership that was issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow, Russia, from March 1918 to January 1931. It has been described as the first Soviet newspaper "designed primarily for the lower-class or common reader". One of its predecessors was the Petrograd-based newspaper Derevenskaya Bednota, which Soviet leadership forced to merge with Bednota. Two additional newspapers, Soldatskaya Pravda, printed in Petrograd and Derevenskaya Pravda, printed in Moscow, were also merged with Bednota in 1919, per a decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party for this to occur.
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