Trotsky Léon

1921 · réf. 110 — A Soviet newspaper from the Russian Civil War "Krasnaya Gazeta" Krasnaya Gazeta Russian: КраÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Газета English: Red Newspaper with an military order from Leon Trotsky. 1921. Stalin era. Newspapers and books mentioning Leon Trotsky were confiscated from stores and libraries and destroyed. The newspaper was stored folded and will be shipped folded. The yellowing of the pages the frayed paper and small tears and creases are due to the newspaper being stored folded. Krasnaya Gazeta Russian: КраÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Газета English: Red Newspaper was a daily newspaper of Soviet Russia the USSR founded in Petrograd by V. Volodarsky. The first issue was published on January 25 1918. It was published by the party and state authorities: at various times it served as the organ of the central provincial and city committees of the All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks and the Petrograd Soviet Lensovet. The newspaper described important political events taking place in Petrograd-Leningrad throughout the country and abroad. Considerable attention was devoted to the daily life of the city. In its early years Krasnaya Gazeta without exaggeration can be called one of the main revolutionary newspapers in the country and also characterized as "the second most important propaganda mouthpiece of the St. Petersburg Bolsheviks after Petrogradskaya Pravda."