The role of local merchants in the origin and development of private periodicals of Tomsk in 1881 - February 1917

The contribution of the local merchants of Tomsk to the origin and further development of the private, non-state periodical press of Tomsk in 1881 - February 1917 is investigated; the material and technical, political and social conditions for publishing newspapers and magazines, their quantitative and qualitative characteristics are analyzed; ideological and political attitudes of editors and publishers, a well-grounded conclusion is made about the large number of periodicals in Tomsk, especially during and after the first Russian revolution. This subject is not sufficiently considered in the works of the Siberian historians of culture and press N.M. Dmitrienko, N.V. Zhilyakova, G.M. Zalesov, O.G. Nikienko and T.V. Staleva. This topic has been partially covered by E.N. Kosykh. The source base of the research was made up of a wide range of archival and published sources, varied in content and capacity: office documents, reference publications, periodicals, materials of personal origin. The research methodology and methods include three main levels: general scientific, general historical and concrete historical. The study is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity; historiographic, historical-comparative, bibliographic and historical-genetic methods have been used among the concrete historical methods. The article shows that merchants, they also tended to be the publishers and editors P.I. Makushin, V.A. Dolgorukov and others in the late XIX - early XX centuries, especially since 1905-1906, had been constantly increasing the publication of newspapers and magazines of various content and socio-political orientation. The contribution of the local merchants to the origin of the private, non-state periodicals of Tomsk was very significant, if not decisive. By the February Revolution of 1917, Tomsk had become a recognized publishing and printing center in Siberia.

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