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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
In the fall 1989 issue of Heimatliche Weiten, the semiannual Soviet German literary journal, a bibliographical article by Victor Herdt, “Verzeichnis der russland- und sowjet-deutschen Zeitungen (1728–1989),” lists more than 150 German-language newspapers published in Russia and the Soviet Union. The entries are limited to German Russian newspapers and exclude those of other ethnic Germans, such as the Baltic, Bessarabian, or urban Germans, who differ from the German Russians in origin, culture, and history.
1. Herdt is a specialist in German studies and a former contributor to Neues Leben. He is presently a freelance translator in Moscow.Google Scholar
2. Issue No. 2, 1989, pp. 270–276. Heimatliche Weiten is published twice a year since 1981 by the editorial offices of Pravda in Moscow, though the sponsor is listed as Neues Leben. For the past several years the chief editor has been Liudmila Lindt, but other staff members have Russian names.Google Scholar
3. By the designation “German Russian” Herdt refers to the descendants of German colonists who settled in Russia at the invitation of Catherine II and Alexander I from 1764 onward. By this definition, it is questionable whether the Petrograder Zeitung, which began publication in 1728, and several other titles, such as Medizinische Zeitung Rußlands, Russische Eisenbahnzeitung, and Rußlands Bank- und Handelszeitung, should be included, but this listing follows Herdt's selection.Google Scholar
4. Except for the specialized work of Meir Buchsweiler of Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel, there has been no study of the German Russian and Soviet German press until now.Google Scholar
5. Concerning the question of the accuracy of Soviet data on reported language usage in the USSR, see Sidney Heitman, “Soviet Germans and the 1979 Census: A Note on the Reliability of Soviet Census Data,” Nationalities Papers, IX, 2 (Fall), 1981, 231–36; “Jews in the 1989 USSR Census,” Soviet Jewish Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 1, (Spring 1990), 23–30; and Rasma Karklins, “A Note on ’Nationality‘ and ’Native Tongue‘ As Census Categories in 1979,” Soviet Studies, XXXII, 3 (July 1980), pp. 415–422.Google Scholar
6. It should be reiterated that the substantive content of this bibliography is based on the work of Victor Herdt, while the revision of it for publication here was done by the editor, who assumes full responsibility for the amended version.Google Scholar
7. The dates for this publication were not provided by Herdt, an apparent oversight.Google Scholar