ABSTRACT
From the governmental journals published in Moscow in editions numbered by the hundred thousand down to the tiny industrial and village newspapers, the deluge of the Red press makes its way among all the fibres of the Russian national body, being irresistible in its effects, since there is no other daily reading matter and therefore no standard of comparison for the Soviet citizens. Their monopoly of the printing presses and the publishing houses gives the bolsheviks unchallenged command of the "sixth great power", the periodical press. The newspaper censorship does not merely suppress news whose publication would be disagreeable to those in power, but actually sifts out and rejects everything which is not of positive value to the regime. Characteristic of the attitude of the Soviet press towards the foreign world is a little corner in the widely circulated Moscow journal "Vechernyaya Moskva"—three or four inches of one column published under the caption "From Everywhere about Everything".
