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''Novy Mir'' ( Pre-Revolution , Post-Revolution Russian: Но́вый Ми́р, , ''New World'') was a Russian language socialist newspaper published in the United States during 1911-1938. It was published by Russian
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s in New York City in 1911–1917 until their return to Russia after the
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of 1917. Its first editor-in-chief was Leo Deutsch. By 1916 it was edited by
Nikolai Bukharin Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (; rus, Николай Иванович Бухарин, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ bʊˈxarʲɪn; – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik ...
and
Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (; , ; – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she was a highl ...
, who were briefly joined by
Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky,; ; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky'' was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a key figure ...
when he arrived in New York in January 1917. V. Volodarsky, then living in
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, was one of the contributors.Jerome Davis, The Russian Immigrant (New York, 1922), pp. 124-126. After the Russian Revolution the newspaper was issued intermittently putting forth varying moderate laborist and leftist politics until 1930s.


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