TY - JOUR
T1 - Ekho Avstralii
T2 - Australia's First Russian Newspaper and Its Revolutionary Reverberations
AU - Windle, Kevin
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - In June 1912, Fedor Sergeev, a Russian Revolutionary who had made his way from Siberian exile to Australia, launched a weekly newspaper in Brisbane. Entitled Ekho Avstralii, it would cater to a community of Russian immigrants then said to number approximately 11,000. Sergeev sought by this means to give the immigrants a sense of communal identity and common purpose, and 'uphold the interests of the Russian-speaking worker in Australia'. This article reviews the newspaper's contents and draws attention to some of its journalists and contributors, including the poet Nikolai Il´in and Petr Simonov (later to be Consul), in the Australian context of the time.
AB - In June 1912, Fedor Sergeev, a Russian Revolutionary who had made his way from Siberian exile to Australia, launched a weekly newspaper in Brisbane. Entitled Ekho Avstralii, it would cater to a community of Russian immigrants then said to number approximately 11,000. Sergeev sought by this means to give the immigrants a sense of communal identity and common purpose, and 'uphold the interests of the Russian-speaking worker in Australia'. This article reviews the newspaper's contents and draws attention to some of its journalists and contributors, including the poet Nikolai Il´in and Petr Simonov (later to be Consul), in the Australian context of the time.
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U2 - 10.1353/see.2023.a897285
DO - 10.1353/see.2023.a897285
M3 - Article
SN - 0037-6795
VL - 101
SP - 64
EP - 90
JO - Slavonic and East European Review
JF - Slavonic and East European Review
IS - 1
ER -