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.

The Argumenty i Fakty Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues, with an additional year’s worth of content available for purchase on an annual basis. The archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, and features full-text articles, with full page-level digitization and complete original graphics for later years. The archive has searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other Infoteka digital resources.