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Die Wacht
''Die Wacht'' ('The Guard') was a Volga German communist newspaper, which appeared around 1918 as a sister publication of ''Nachrichten ''Nachrichten'' ('News') was a Volga German communist newspaper, published between 1918 and 1941.Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen"НАХРИХТЕН"/ref> ''Nachrichten'' was the organ of the Communist Party in the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socia ...''. ''Die Wacht'' ceased publication in June 1919.Bourret, Jean-François. Les Allemands de la Volga: histoire culturelle d'une minorité, 1763-1941'. Lyon: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1986. p. 419 References German-language communist newspapers Newspapers published in Russia Newspapers established in 1918 1919 establishments in Russia {{Russia-newspaper-stub ...
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Volga German
The Volga Germans (german: Wolgadeutsche, ), russian: поволжские немцы, povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and to the south. Recruited as immigrants to Russia in the 18th century, they were allowed to maintain their German culture, language, traditions and churches (Lutheran, Reformed, Catholics, Moravians and Mennonites). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many Volga Germans emigrated to United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentina. During the Great Purge of 1936 to 1938, the Soviet government began targeting ethnic groups who were part of the intellectual class such as the Volga Germans, who were then subjected to forced deportation and extreme repression, some tens of thousands were also killed during the massacres in Belarus. They were deported eastward, which caused many thousands of deaths. Finally, in 1941, by order of Stalin, all ethn ...
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Nachrichten
''Nachrichten'' ('News') was a Volga German communist newspaper, published between 1918 and 1941.Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen"НАХРИХТЕН"/ref> ''Nachrichten'' was the organ of the Communist Party in the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The newspaper was founded under the name ''Vorwärts'' ('Forward') by the German Commissariat in Saratov in March 1918. ''Vorwärts'' was the first Bolshevik newspaper directed towards the Volga German colonists. It carried the by-line 'Organ of the Socialists in the German Volga territory' (''Organ der Sozialisten des deutschen Wolgagebiets'').Geschichte der Wolgadeutschen. Schiller, Franz P., Literatur zur Geschichte und Volkskunde der deutschen Kolonien in der Sowjetunion für die Jahre 1764 – 1926' The name was changed to ''Nachrichten'' in June 1918, as the Bolsheviks wanted to avoid any association with the SPD organ ''Vorwärts''.Heitman, Sidney. Germans from Russia in Colorado'. Fort Collins, Colo: Western Social S ...
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German-language Communist Newspapers
German ( ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic group, such as Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language after English, which is also a West Germanic language. German is one of the major ...
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Newspapers Published In Russia
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century, as ...
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Newspapers Established In 1918
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century, as ...
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