''Novoye Slovo'' (russian: Новое слово; meaning: ''New Word'') was the title of two separate

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n magazines published in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, the first appearing between 1893 or 1895, and 1897 and the second in the fall of 1917. The first incarnation of ''Novoe Slovo'' was originally run by moderate

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s (populists). In April 1897 the magazine was taken over by

Legal Marxist Legal Marxism was a Russian Marxist movement based on a particular interpretation of Marxist theory whose proponents were active in socialist circles between 1894 and 1901. The movement's primary theoreticians were Pyotr Struve, Nikolai Berdyaev, S ...

s and edited by them until it was shut down by the

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ist government in December 1897. It was followed by another Legal Marxist magazine, ''

Nachalo ''Nachalo'' (''The Beginning'') was a Russian Marxist monthly magazine published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. Origins When ''Novoye Slovo'', the flagship magazine of the Saint Petersburg-based Legal Marxists, was suppressed by the Czar ...

'', in January–June 1899. ''Novoe Slovo'' contributors included prominent Legal Marxists Peter Struve, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky,

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as well as revolutionary

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Georgy Plekhanov Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (; rus, Гео́ргий Валенти́нович Плеха́нов, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj vəlʲɪnˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ plʲɪˈxanəf, a=Ru-Georgi Plekhanov-JermyRei.ogg; – 30 May 1918) was a Russian revoluti ...

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Julius Martov Julius Martov or L. Martov (Ма́ртов; born Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum; 24 November 1873 – 4 April 1923) was a politician and revolutionary who became the leader of the Mensheviks in early 20th-century Russia. He was arguably the closes ...

and Vera Zasulich.

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

, an increasingly popular realist writer who was close to Russian Marxists, was also published in the magazine. The title was used again in 1917 when the

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suppressed '' Zhivoye Slovo'' (''The Live Word'') in August and the magazine reappeared first as ''Slovo'' (''The Word'') and then as ''Novoye Slovo''. From 1933 to 1944 a newspaper of White émigrés named ''Novoye Slovo'' appeared in

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References

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