Russia’s oldest newspaper published in English — the
Moscow News
— is now available in its entirety (1930-2014) as a digital archive from East View.
Founded with utopian zeal and aimed at expatriates,
Moscow News
chronicled tectonic shifts that swept over Russia during the past lifetime.
Moscow News
offers a window in English toward a better understanding of the political and social upheavals in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras, providing a unique record of how the media adapted to the tumult that shook the USSR and the Russian Federation, from Stalin to Putin.
Moscow News
faced scrutiny by censors, arrest and expulsion of news staff, and espionage charges before being shut down between 1949 and 1956. During glasnost and perestroika,
Moscow News
became a staunch defender for reform — a platform frequently chosen to air controversial topics and interviews.
Moscow News
underwent several changes of ownership after the USSR collapsed, until it ceased publication in 2014.
When digitization is completed at the end of this year, East View’s digital archive of
Moscow News
will contain all 60,000 full-image pages (with searchable full text) from every issue published from October 1930 into early 2014 (including the short-lived
Moscow Daily News
, 1932-1938). When complete, the
Moscow News
digital archive will offer online access to this surprisingly unique newspaper of record, with original page-level layout and graphics, and searchable text that is cross-searchable with related digital resources from East View.
