Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Australia’s Early Russian-Language Press (1912–1919)
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'Between 1912 and 1919, at different times, seven fortnightly Russian newspapers, legal and illegal, circulated in Queensland, most of them as organs of the Brisbane Union of Russian Workers. This study will survey the available newspapers in the context of their time and treat the key personalities involved, most of whom had left Australia or been deported by the end of 1919: “Artem” Sergeeff, a Bolshevik and close ally of Lenin; Peter Simonoff, appointed Soviet consul in 1918; Alexander Zuzenko, leading anarchist, journalist, and instigator of the Red Flag procession; and Herman Bykoff, Zuzenko’s ally. The survey will be in three parts: first attempts (Artem and his allies 1912–1917); the press and revolution (Simonoff, Zuzenko, Klushin 1917–1918); and last gasp (Zuzenko, Bykoff 1919).'

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    y separately published work icon The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press Catherine Dewhirst (editor), Richard Scully (editor), Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 25971689 2020 anthology criticism

    Focuses on the rare, radical and foreign-language print culture of multiple and frequently concurrent minority groups’ newspaper ventures.

    Demonstrates how the local experiences and narratives of such communities are always forged and negotiated within a context of globalising forces.

    Explores the diverse worlds of Australia’s migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day

    Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020
    pg. 61-79
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