Znamya (Russian: Знамя, lit. Banner) was a Saint Petersburg daily newspaper established by an ultra-nationalist journalist Pavel Krushevan in 1902. The newspaper was an organ of the Union of the Russian People.
Contents
1 The Jewish Programme to Conquer the World
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links
The Jewish Programme to Conquer the World
Main article: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
According to Cesare G. De Michelis in, The Non-Existent Manuscript: A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion (2004), the first publicly published edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was in August (13 days later in September by the Gregorian Calendar) of 1903 in Znamya.
The paper carried the headline "The Jewish Programme to Conquer the World". But the paper purported that it was merely printing a document whose actual title, in Russian, was "The Protocols of the Sessions of the "World Alliance of Freemasons and of the Sages of Zion". This publication event gives the newspaper its historical notorious notability, being the first edition of the antisemitic canard.
The text was serialized into nine (9) issues, in Russian, under the Russian language headline, "Programma zavoevaniya mira evreyami", which translates as "The Jewish Programme for the Conquest of the World".
The serialized articles are:
No. 190 (28 August [10 September]): 2; 2,
No. 191 (29 August [11 September]): 2; 3,
No. 192 (30 August [12 September]): 2; 4,
No. 193 (31 August [13 September]): 1-2; 5,
No. 194 (1 [14] September): 1-2; 6,
No. 195 (2 [15] September): 1-2; 7,
No. 196 (3 [16] September): 2; 8,
No. 197 (4 [17] September): 2; 9,
No. 200 (7 [20] September): 2.
It is reported that in 1905 the newspaper changed its name to Russkoye Znamya (Russian: Русское знамя, lit. Russian Banner). Except for the Hoover Institute, no major scholarly library in the West appears to carry any issues prior to 1905 when the alleged predecessor was allegedly known by the shorter name. The idea that these two papers are the same comes from the famous Russian and/or Soviet encyclopaedia which is considered the scholarly equivalent of the especially famous 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica-namely, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
After the February Revolution in March 1917 the newspaper was discontinued by the decision of the Petrograd Soviet.
There was a small online publication Russkoye Znamya devoted to "the history of Russian people and alternative medicine" that claims to be the continuation of the newspaper.[1] As of August 27, 2006 the website appears to be dead.
Bibliography
De Michelis, Cesare G.
trans. by Newhouse, Richard
The Non-Existent Manuscript: A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion
(Studies in Antisemitism Series)
Rev. & Expanded Ed., 424 pp.
(Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
ISBN 0-8032-1727-7