Pravda editor and Soviet History specialist Gabor Ritterspoon shows how important Pravda really was within soviet society, not as a news and analysis source but as propaganda tool and perhaps more importantly as the party’s way of communicating and sending messages to the lower cadres and local burocrats. Gabor shows how even though nothing was ever said clearly and no bad news were ever included those who knew how could unveil Moscow’s realpolitik intrigue by reading between the lines. The Pravda Newspaper was founded in 1913 by Leon Trotsky as a Russian social democratic newspaper for Russian workers. In 1918 Pravda essentially became an official publication of the Soviet Communist Party and the conduit for announcing official policy until 1991. A great show complete with russian accent and soviet iconography on the background.