The newspaper “Raboche-krest’yanskaya pravda” in the 1920s: pre-collective farm peasant life

The article examines the events of peasant farming in the 1920s, which were written about by the county newspaper “Raboche-Krest’yanskaya Pravda”. The study of the history of peasant press facilitates the elucidation of the profound meanings underlying social transformations in the country, as well as the deliberate activities of party and state authorities during the examined period. Valuable information has been obtained from documents dated to the 1920s stored in the State Archive of the Ulyanovsk Region (SAUR), particularly within the collection of the Ulyanovsk Province Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The primary source utilized for the preparation of this article is the district newspaper “Raboche-Krest’yanskaya Pravda”, which served as the printed organ of the Melekess City Committee of the AUCP (b), the District Executive Committee of the Soviets, and the Professional Bureau (from 1918 to 1920, the newspaper was titled “Znamya Kommunizma”; from 1920 to 1930, it was known as “Raboche-Krest’yanskaya Pravda”; from 1965 to 2007, it was called “Znamya Truda”; and since 2007, it has been “Melekesskiye Vesti”). The newspaper was published eight times a month and sold for five kopecks per issue. The newspaper was published 8 times a month and cost 5 kopecks per issue. The methodological basis of this study relies on general scientific and specifically historical methods, including historicism, systemic analysis, and objectivity. The article extensively employs the ideographic method of historical science, which allows for a detailed description of events and phenomena.