ABSTRACT
This is how the Solovetsky press began: on 8 October 1923 Isaac S. Slepian set foot on the island. And in March 1924 the journal SLON was produced. From its very first 1925 issue the journal was renamed The Solovetsky Islands. The newspaper The New Solovki was launched on 11 January of the same year. The idea of the publication, Shiriayev recalls, orginated with Nikolai Litvin, who had just been discharged from the infirmary after a serious illness and could be seen quietly and silently leaning on a stick and wandering about the kremlin yards. There is no point in condemning the naively sanctimonious ventures of former Party members: sufficient to let them speak for themselves. Kal expounds his ideas to Doctor Ognivtsev: The world is saved. Psychological deformity is a thing of the past. Life forms are rendered healthy, with the development of an average mental type.
