ABSTRACT
Der emes as to be the voice of the Bolshevik and then Communist Party to the Jewish masses, published by Jews and for Jews. In August 1918, after the capital had already moved to Moscow, the Jewish Commissariat decided that publishing a central newspaper was of the highest priority and put out a Moscow-based Yiddish paper under the name Der emes. In the post-war era, known as New Economic Policy (NEP), the New Economic Policy, the state passed a new law on economic self-sufficiency As of 1 January 1922, newspapers had to pay for themselves or they would, in theory, be closed down. The prime target for criticism was the editor-in-chief, Moshe Litvakov, a former leader of the Zionist Socialist movement. In 1926, a dramatic attempt to close down Der emes revealed the strains between regionalism and centralism and the overlap between economics and politics in the life and eventual death of Der emes.
