Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet press is thousands of town, village and factory papers, shop wall newspapers, group publications for trade unions, the Party, youth, the Army. But most important are the three big Moscow dailies, Pravda, Izvestia, Red Star, and two magazines, Crocodile and War and the Working Class...
...Party Line. Press Day marks the anniversary of the founding of Pravda (Truth) at St. Petersburg in 1912. In 32 years Pravda has become the world's biggest daily, with over 3,000,000 circulation, though in wartime its circulation is being held to about 2,000,000.* Its two Moscow buildings spread over the equivalent of two New York City blocks and contain a clinic, restaurant, theater for press workers. Its 21 rotary presses (mostly U.S.-made) can print 1,000,000 copies an hour. The Pravda plant also produces many a book and other publication, notably Komsomolskaya...
...Pravda the Russian reads what the Central Committee of the Communist Party wants him to read. It is the official Party organ. Stalin, as General Secretary of the Party, is always interested in the tone which Pravda sets for the rest of the Soviet press. Too busy now to give it close personal attention, he is represented in its management by 43-year-old Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, head of the Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo...
...Pravda's prewar editorial staff of 250 is now whittled to 50 or 60. It has correspondents with every branch of the Red Fleet and with every army commander in the field. (At least 50 Russian press correspondents have been killed at the fronts.) And when it wants to, Pravda can draw on the best of contemporary Russian writers: Gregory Riklin, Mikhail Sholokhov, Konstantin Simonov. The staff writer best known in the U.S. is the one who has most often criticized U.S. citizens: David Iosifovich Zaslavsky, author of Pravda's recent cracks at Wendell Willkie (TIME...
...Kremlin Line. Izvestia (News) is the official Government organ, as such is scarcely distinguishable from Pravda. On a given day it will carry with Pravda, an identical Stalin prikaz and an identical svodka in the same type and positions. When there is no Stalin Order, Izvestia and Pravda fill their two left columns with a peredovitsa (leading editorial...