Golos Truda

Golos Truda
Header of the first Russian edition, published August 11, 1917
TypeMonthly/weekly/daily periodical
PublisherUnion of Russian Workers (New York)
Anarcho-Syndicalist Propaganda Union / Golos Truda group (Russia)
FoundedNew York, 1911
Political alignmentAnarchist
LanguageRussian
Ceased publication1917, 1919
HeadquartersNew York (1911–1917)
Petrograd (1917–1918)
Moscow (1918)
Sister newspapersThe Float

Golos Truda (Russian: Голос Труда, lit.'The Voice of Labour') was a Russian-language anarchist newspaper.[1] Founded by working-class Russian expatriates in New York City in 1911, Golos Truda shifted to Petrograd during the Russian Revolution in 1917, when its editors took advantage of the general amnesty and right of return for political dissidents. There, the paper integrated itself into the anarchist labour movement, pronounced the necessity of a social revolution of and by the workers, and situated itself in opposition to the myriad of other left-wing movements.

The rise to power of the Bolsheviks marked the turning point for the newspaper however, as the new government enacted increasingly repressive measures against the publication of dissident literature and against anarchist agitation in general, and after a few years of low-profile publishing, the Golos Truda collective was finally expunged by the Stalinist regime in 1929.

  1. ^ "G.P. Maksimov Papers". iisg.nl. International Institute of Social History. Retrieved March 22, 2009.