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Political Satire in the State Duma Election Campaigns in 1906 – 1907

Student: Plotnikova Anna

Supervisor: Kirill Solovyov

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

In the period 1906 - 1907. In Russia, censorship intervention was minimal, resulting in political satire in the press and a widespread increase in periodicals. There are more and more mass publications, while censorship is not very powerful. In order to fully understand the motives behind the publication of political satire by publishers during the election campaigns to the State Duma of 1906-1907, it is important to study to which party this or that editorial office attributed itself, and, in this regard, whom it sought to denigrate and put the object of attacks. Consequently, the work compares several magazines and newspapers of that time, which referred themselves to different parties. Thus, Golos Moskvy was the only Octobrist newspaper, Novoye Vremya was the main unprincipled and reactionary newspaper of that time of the right-wing movement, Rech - publications headed by constitutionally democratic parties, and so on. The object of the research is newspapers and magazines from 1906 to 1907, covering the election campaigns in the State Duma. The subject matter is the views of the editorial board of a particular publication on the existing orders of that time. The research focuses on the most famous periodicals of the conservative and liberal trends of the early 20th century, broadcasting in their publications the events taking place during the election campaigns in the State Duma and maximally revealing the features of the election race. The first chapter was based on the party-unprincipled newspaper "Novoye Vremya" A.S. Suvorin and the Octobrist edition "Voice of Moscow". The second chapter analyzes the Cadet edition of Rech, which occupies a dominant position among the other party press.

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