Categories | Political magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Founded | 1945 |
Final issue | 1990 |
Country | Latvia |
Based in | Riga |
Language | Latvian |
ISSN | 0132-6430 |
OCLC | 77222629 |
Padomju Latvijas Komunists ('Communist of Soviet Latvia') was a Latvian language monthly journal published from Riga, the theoretical organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia.[1][2] It had a Russian language edition, called Kommunist Sovetskoi Latvii.[3]
The publication was founded in 1945, and called Padomju Latvijas Boļševiks (Latvian: Bolshevik of Soviet Latvia) until 1952.[4] In the early years Jānis Bumbiers was the editor of the journal.[5] It had several supplements, including the handicrafts attachments.[6]
As of the early 1970s, Padomju Latvijas Komunists had a circulation of 16,300, and Kommunist Sovetskoi Latvii had a circulation of 5,100.[3] It ceased publication in 1990.[7]