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The Role of the Third Congress of Press Workers in the Establishment of the Union of Journalists

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For citation: Zhirkov G.V. The Role of the Third Congress of Press Workers in the Establishment of the Union of Journalists // Mediaskop. 2020. 4. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2661

DOI: 10.30547/mediascope.4.2020.1

 

@ Gennadij V. Zhirkov
Doctor in Philology, Professor at the Chair of History of Journalism, Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia), history@if.pu.ru

 

Abstract

The article deals with the organization and development of the Union of Journalists in the USSR in the period of the New Economic Policy; the role of the Third Congress of the Soviet Journalists (January 28 – February 2, 1922) in the establishment of the Union of Journalists and overcoming the press crisis. The author writes about the following problems: liberty of the press, criticism of Soviet authorities, role of the RCPb in controlling the press; press information from the Centre; reorganization of ROSTA; creation of system of journalistic education.

This article contains new historic materials. It has a documentary basis: the author uses documents, accounts and reports of Congresses of the Soviet Journalists, archival materials, documents of RCPB, reference book of 1920-s, periodical press («Isvestiya VTSIK», «Pravda», «Krasnaya pechat’», «Isvestiya TSK RCPb», «Journalist» and other).

The author considers that the Third Congress of Soviet Journalists had the main role in organization of the Union of Soviet Journalists.

Keywords: New Economic Policy, crisis, Union of Journalists, the Third Congress of Soviet Journalists, liberty of the press, RCPb, journalistic education

 

Notes

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Vserossijskij sjezd zhurnalistov [Russian National Congress of Journalists]. Peterburgskij listok, 1908. June 23.

Kranihfel'd Vl. (1914) Nashi sjezdy [Our Congresses]. Zhurnalist (Moskva) 1.

Muravejskij S. (1926) Podgotovka rabotnikov pechati [Press workers training]. In:  Газетный и книжный мир [World of newspapers and books].  Moscow: Jekonomicheskaja zhizn' Publ., p. 102.  

Topor V. Sekcija rabotnikov pechati [Press workers sub-forum].  In: Газетный и книжный мир [World of newspapers and books].  Moscow: Jekonomicheskaja zhizn' Publ., p. 407.

Ingulov S. (1923) Gazeta revoljucii [Newspaper of the revolution].  In:  Sovremennik. Zhurnal nauki, politiki, literatury, teorii i istorii pechati [Sovremennik. Journal of Science, Politics, Literature, Theory and History of the Press].  Vol. 2. Moscow: Publishing house of the State. institute of journalism Publ., pp. 293–295.

Steklov Ju. (1925) Редактор и его роль в газете [Editors and their role in a newspaper].  Moscow: Publishing house of the State institute of journal Publ., p. 12.

Kol'cov Mih. (1930) «Stradanija Kalibana» [‘Caliban`s sufferings’].  In:  Lovcy novostej (Zhurnalistika v licah) [News hunters (Journalism in personalities)].  Moscow: Leningrad: Zemlja i fabrika Publ., p. 17

Pervaja Moskovskaja gubernskaja konferencija rabotnikov pechati // Zhurnalist. 1922. № 1. С. 58. [The First Moscow Provincial Conference of Press Workers // Journalist. 1922. №1, p.58].

Ingulov S. (1923) Voz lezet v goru [Climbing the mountaing]. Zhurnalist, no. 3., p. 10.

III Vserossijskij s#ezd rabotnikov pechati (otche [III Russian National Congress of Press Workers (report)]. Pravda.. 1922. No 23. January 31.

Vserossijskaja sekcija rabotnikov pechati) [Russian National sub-forum of Press Workers]. In:  K.P. Novickogo (K. Petrovina) (ed.) Spravochnaja knizhka zhurnalista na 1923 g. [Hand book of a journalist for 1923].  Moscow: Publishing house of the Moscow Institute of Journalism, pp. 166−169; 173−175.

Ul'janova M. (1924) Nado peresmotret' [We need to re-consider it]. Pravda, August 5.

Otchety redakcionno-izdatel'skogo podotdela i podotdela pechati. Sent. 1921 g. – ijul' 1922 g. [Reports of the editorial-and-publishing and press sub-departments. September 1921 – July 1922]. RGASPI. F. 17. Op. 60. Ed. hr. 841. L. 2

Tri sjezda [Three Congresses]. Zhurnalist, 1923, no.4, February, p. 7.

Muravejskij S.(1926) Podgotovka rabotnikov pechati. [Press Workers Training]. Gazetnyj i knizhnyj mir. Vypusk vtoroj [World of newspapers and books. 2nd Issue]. Moscow: Jekonomicheskaja zhizn' Publ., p. 102. 

Redakcija. Konec razbrodu! [Editorial. Stop the mess!]. Zhurnalist, 1922, no 1., p  3.

Topor V. (1926) Cekcija rabotnikov pechati [Sub-forum of the Press Workers]. In: Gazetnyj i knizhnyj mir. Vypusk vtoroj [World of newspapers and books. 2nd Issue] Moscow: Ekonomicheskaja zhizn'  Publ. , 1926. С. 407, 408

Tri sjezda (peredovaja stat'ja) [Three Congresses (Leading article)]. Zhurnalist, 1923, no 4, pp. 7. 8

Nash plenum [Our plenum]. Zhurnalist, 1922, no 2, p. 49.

Pravda. 1918. November, 15−17; 1922. February 1.

Vooruzhennyj narod . 1918. November, 17.

Vestnik zhizni. 1919. № 3−4. Pp. I36−137.

Krest'janskaja pravda (Kologriv). 1918. Dec., 7.

Pravda. 1922. No 23. January 31; No 24. February 1.

Zhurnalist, 1924. No 4. P. 8.

Izvestija VCIK. 1924. July, 2.

Petrogradskaja pravda. 1921. Dec., 7.

Pravda. 1922. № 24. February, 1.

Izvestija CK RKP(b). 1921. № 28. S. 14.

Izvestija CK RKPb. 1921. № 36. S. 6.

Spravochnik partijnogo rabotnika. M., 1922. Vyp. 2. S. 62.

RGASPI. F. 17. Op. 60. Ed. hr. 841. L. 2.

Zhurnalist. 1923. № 3 (Janv.). S. 10.. 17. Op. 60. Ed. hr. 841. L. 3.

 

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