Rassvet = the Dawn (Chicago, Ill.) 1926-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,316 issues from 1926 to 1938, published in Chicago, Illinois, digitised for Chronicling America.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Chicago saw a string of anti-Bolshevik daily newspapers beginning with Svobodnai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡ (Free Russia), followed by Russkiĭ Vestnik (Russian Daily Herald), which eventually became the Rassviet (Dawn). Svobodnai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡ was founded in 1918 by the Russian Independent Mutual Aid Society (RIMAS), an insurance group for “physically and morally acceptable” immigrants that also aimed to educate and spread Russian culture. The organization was made up of Russians who had been part of the White movement, an alliance of various political groups who opposed Vladimir Lenin’s faction of Marxists, the Bolsheviks (also known as the Reds), during the Russian Revolution. After the Reds overthrew the Tsar, sparking the Russian Civil War, hundreds of thousands fled: monarchists, extreme nationalists, former nobility, and government officials. Many Whites settled in Chicago, creating a “colony” where they hoped to keep Russian culture and traditions alive until the Bolsheviks were overthrown, and they could go back home to their old lives. Newspaper publishing was one way to achieve that goal and had the additional benefits of keeping the colony updated on the situation in Russia, promoting anti-Bolshevik views, and advertising for RIMAS. However, these papers were not moneymakers: Svobodnai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡ was printed only in 1918 and from 1922-23, before it was sold to the Lithuanian lawyer Kazys Gugis who relaunched it as Russkiĭ Vestnik from…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Language
- Russian
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress