Pravda is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The first issue of Pravda was published in Vienna on October 3, 1908, with Leon Trotsky serving as its editor. Designed as an illegal, non-factional Marxist newspaper, it was smuggled across the border into Russia to unify the fractured Russian Social Democratic movement. In April 1912, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik faction hijacked the highly popular name and style, launching their own legal daily workers' newspaper called Pravda in St. Petersburg. It emerged as the leading government newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.
- Country
- Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
- Headquarters
- Moscow
