title: THE FREE HIGHLANDER NEWSPAPER AS AN ORGAN OF INDEPENDENT NORTH CAUCASIAN DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT DURING THE CIVIL WAR
abstract: The revolutions of 1917 gave impetus to the development of multi-party journalism in the North Caucasus. The thesis about the vanguard role of the local Bolshevik press in the political arena in these crisis conditions, prevalent in the overwhelming majority of historical and journalistic studies of the Soviet period, does not correspond to reality. The concept that sheds light on the fact that during the February and October revolutions the Bolsheviks used local liberal and enlightenment public
journal: Proceedings of Southern Federal University Philology