Argumenty i Fakty Digital Archive
The most popular news outlet of the Gorbachev era
Argumenty i fakty (Аргументы и факты, Arguments and Facts), a weekly newspaper based in Moscow, once had the largest circulation of any periodical in the world – in 1990 it was even entered in the Guinness book of records for its print run of 33.5 million. Founded by the Russian organization “Knowledge” (Znanie), the newspaper’s original goal was to provide propagandists with statistical and other hard-to-find information. During the Gorbachev era Argumenty i fakty became one of the most important newspapers in the Soviet Union – a major tool in publicizing Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost.
