Pravda

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Central organ of the Bolshevik party and later of the CPSU. Founded in St. Petersburg on 5 May 1912 as a legal workers' daily (the date later became Soviet Press Day), with Molotov and Stalin involved in its early editing, it dodged censorship by reappearing under altered mastheads each time it was shut down. Closed outright in July 1914, it was revived after the February Revolution of 1917 and became the party's central organ; Bukharin served as editor-in-chief in 1918–1929 with Lenin's sister Maria Ulyanova as editorial secretary. Until the end of the USSR it reigned as the largest daily conveying the party line: the Soviet-era joke that 'there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia' testifies to that standing in reverse. The title dispute with Trotsky's Vienna newspaper of the same name (1908–1912) was an early source of intra-party friction.