Prosveshcheniye (Russian:Просвещение, 'Enlightenment')^[1] was a legalBolshevik socio-political and literary monthly magazine inRussia.

Prosveshcheniye began publication inSt. Petersburg in December 1911.Maxim Gorky was editor of the fiction section.

Its inauguration was proposed by Lenin to replace the Bolshevik journalMysl (Thought), a Moscow publication banned by the tsarist government.^[2]

The magazine was banned by thetsarist government on the eve of theFirst World War in June 1914. One further issue (a double one) appeared in the autumn of 1917.^[3]

In 1913 the magazine published an essay,Marxism and the National Question byJoseph Stalin, which outlined Bolshevik views on nationality. It was the first time Stalin, who was born Ioseb Jughashvili, had used his new name.^[4]

This European political magazine or journal-related article is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information. See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article'stalk page.

• v
• t
• e

This article about aliterary magazine published inRussia or the formerUSSR is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information. See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article'stalk page.

• v
• t
• e

• Defunct literary magazines published in Russia
• Defunct political magazines published in Russia
• Magazines established in 1911
• Magazines disestablished in 1917
• Defunct Marxist magazines
• Monthly magazines published in Russia
• Defunct Russian-language magazines
• Defunct magazines published in Saint Petersburg
• Political magazines published in Europe stubs
• Literary magazines published in Europe stubs
• Mass media in Russia stubs

• Articles containing Russian-language text
• All stub articles