Novaya Zhizn

{{Short description|Bolshevik daily newspaper}}

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Novaya Zhizn ({{Langx|ru|Новая Жизнь|lit=New Life}}) was the first legal Bolshevik daily newspaper.{{Cite book|title=Stalin|last=Trotsky|first=Leon|publisher=Wellred Books|year=2016|isbn=978-1-900-00767-2|pages=89}} It was founded by Alexander Bogdanov{{cite book |last1=Sochor |first1=Zenovia |title=Revolution and Culture: The Bogdanov-Lenin Controversy |date=1988 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, NY |page=6}} and its first editor was Nikolai Minsky. It was first published in October 1905 in Petersburg,{{Cite web |title=Новая жизнь, [ежедневная политическая и литературная газета], 27 октября (9 ноября), 1905, № 1 |url=https://electro.nekrasovka.ru/books/6179694 |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=electro.nekrasovka.ru |language=en}} under the guidance of Lenin. It was published until December 1905.

The paper was funded by Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt and Savva Morozov.{{cite book |last1=Turton |first1=Katy |title=Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870–1940 |date=2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-39308-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75tBDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Revolutionary+Nikolai+Pavlovich+Shmit&pg=PA38 |language=en}}