The Politics of Golos and Nashe Slovo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9968656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred Erich Senn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 675-704 |
| Publication date | 1972-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859000006829 |
| OpenAlex | W2119032050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
When German troops marched into France in August 1914, the wave of nationalism and patriotism which swept up most French socialists carried with it many Russian socialist emigre's living in Paris. Even the Bolshevik Committee of Organizations Abroad (KZO) virtually ceased to function for a time as two of its five members volunteered for military service and a third resigned. Socialist emigre's of all parties established a United Committee of the Russian Emigration with the avowed purpose of offering aid to France. 1 In September, however, the Russians began to take a second look at the conflict, and a new Russian-language newspaper, Golos, emerged in Paris as a rallying point for internationalists opposed to the war. Even Lenin at one time praised Golos as the best socialist newspaper in Europe. French military authorities banned the newspaper in January 1915, but in its stead Nashe Slovo quickly appeared to carry on the struggle. Constantly under attack from French and Russian authorities as a vehicle of pro-German propaganda, and ever faced by financial disaster, Nashe Slovo nevertheless maintained its precarious existence until the fall of 1916. 2 At the Zimmerwald conference in September 1915, the French representative, Alphonse Merrheim, put special emphasis on the role which Russian emigre's had played in encouraging anti-war feeling among the French: "Grosse Unterstiitzung findet die Opposition in den russischen Genossen von Nasche Slowo. Durch sie wird sie iiber die Oppositionsbewegung in den andern Landern informiert und in ihrer Stellungnahme gestarkt." Leon Trotskii, who represented Nashe Slovo at the conference, declined even to make a report on the newspaper's 1 Biulleten' ob"edimienogo komiteta rossiiskoi emigratsii. No 1 (August 15
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| Citations per year | 0.02 |
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| Citation span | 1981 - 1981 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |