Vestnik Partii Narodnoy Svobody (Herald of the Party of People's Freedom), journal

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VESTNIK PARTII NARODNOY SVOBODY, (Herald of the Party of People's Freedom), a social-political weekly journal of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party (Party of People's Freedom, hence the name). By the decree of the Second Party Congress (January 1906) it was published in St. Petersburg (Petrograd) from 22 February 1906 until 3 February 1908 and from 11 May 1917 until 8 August 1918. In 1906, the editorial office was located at 10 Admiralteyskaya Embankment, later at 30 Kirochnaya Street. Edited until April 1906 by V. D. Nabokov and afterwards jointly with А. I. Kaminka. On 10 May 1906, it was joined by P. N. Milyukov and I. I. Petrunkevich, by some members of the journal Pravo (The Law), and also members of the Central Committee Secretariat. It was financed from the membership fees, donations and sales revenues. The circulation total in 1907 reached four thousand copies. The staff included I. V. Hessen, P. B. Struve, А. V. Tyrkov, N. N. Kutler, А. А. Kaufman. The journal's principal sections were Petersburg City Group, Moscow City Group, Provincial Department (with the reports on party activities), On the Activities of Other Parties, Parliament Week, The Past Days (State Duma reports, reviews of the country's political occurrences), The Parliament Faction of the Party of People's Freedom. Much of the journal consisted of analytical articles, material on party's program issues, its tactics and activities. Continuously harassed by censorship the journal was suppressed in February 1908 by the court, and later resumed by the resolution of the Seventh Party Congress (March 1917) under М. М. Vinaver's editorship. Milyukov, А. Y. Blokh, K. N. Sokolov, N. N. Chernenkov were among its permanent contributors. The second version saw the enlargement of the section covering party activities, and information about the Petrograd and Moscow party groups it also published articles on Russia's state system, agricultural and national issues. Its circulation reached a total of 3000-4,500 copies. It published as a supplement to the minutes of the Ninth Party Congress (July 1917). Following the decree of the Soviet of Peoples' Commissioners on 28 November(11 December)1917, declaring the Constitutional Democrats (cadets) a party of the people's enemies, the journal circulated half legally and was eventually shut down in August 1918.

References: Шевцов А. В. Издательская деятельность русских несоциалистических партий начала ХХ века. СПб., 1997.

N. V. Makarov. Blokh A.Y.
Chernenkov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Hessen Iosif Vladimirovich
Kaminka Avgust Isaakovich
Kaufman Alexander Arkadievich
Kutler Nikolay Nikolaevich
Milyukov Pavel Nikolaevich
Nabokov Vladimir Dmitrievich
Petrunkevich Ivan Ilyich
Sokolov Konstantin Nikolaevich
Struve Peter Berngardovich
Tyrkova Ariadna Vladimirovna
Vinaver Maxim Moiseevich
Admiralteyskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 30
Шевцов А. В. Издательская деятельность русских несоциалистических партий начала ХХ века. СПб., 1997