Petrograd Newspapers about the Russian Front of the First World War during the Period between the Battle of Galicia and the Great Retreat
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History
Year: 2024

The article examines official reports and comments on the actions of the Russian army in mass newspapers in Petrograd during the World War I. The analysis is based on the newspapers “Petrogradskii listok” and “Gazeta-kopeika”. It shows that the newspaper publications, selected over a long period, make it possible to reconstruct a draw up a fairly accurate idea of the stages in the development of warfare. Although military reports were written vaguely to conceal an inconvenient truth, certain key