PRAVDA
Official `Russian Communist Party Publication. There was no way that the farming peasants could get money for their crops. They had to turn over most to the government to feed the cities. But without money, the peasants could not get the goods manufactured in the cities and there was little motivation for the peasants to farm.
Pravda (Russian: Правда, IPA: [ˈpravdə] (listen), "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire, but was already extant abroad in January 1911. It emerged as a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.
