Macedonian Voice (1913–1914) Explained
Macedonian Voice (spelled in the pre-reformed Russian orthography: Macedonian: Македонскій Голосъ,) was a newspaper that was published in Saint Petersburg between 1913 and 1914 by the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society.[1] The issues of the newspaper were published monthly in Russian.[2] [1]
Background
The newspaper was published in the period of the Balkan wars, thus its content was a reflection of the social and political context of that time.[3] Its intent was to generate discussion on the Macedonian Question and to put it on the agenda in the Russian Empire, as well as abroad. Before the newspaper was created, a number of Bulgarian language newspapers and societies of the same name were founded in the region of Macedonia, Bulgaria and the United States by Macedonian Bulgarians.[4] [5]
Content
The newspaper was published in eleven editions. The editor in all the editions was Dimitrija Čupovski. The newspaper was a bulletin of a group of Slav Macedonian students in Russia, and it promoted the notion of a separate Macedonian people as distinct from the Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs.[6] Some of its articles were written by Krste Misirkov.[7]
The newspaper opposed the division of Macedonia between Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania, as a result of the Bucharest treaty in 1913.[8] The editors were struggling to popularize the idea for an independent Macedonian state as is shown on the front page of the first edition published on June 9, 1913. They also demanded the re-establishment of the Archbishopric of Ohrid.[9]
References
- Macedonian Voice (Makedonski Glas) (photographic edition), 1968, Skopje: Institute for National History
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Vojislav Ilić . Živan Milisavac . 1971 . Jugoslovenski književni leksikon . Yugoslav Literary Lexicon . . sh . Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) . 294 .
- Book: Rossos, Andrew . Macedonia and the Macedonians. A History . Hoover Institution Press . 2013 . 9780817948832 . 96.
- Book: Suslov . Mikhail . Čejka . Marek . Ðorđević . Vladimir . Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Origins, Manifestations and Functions . 2023 . Springer Nature . 9783031178757 . 216.
- Borshukov, Georgi. History of Bulgarian Journalism 1844 - 1877 1878 - 1885. Second supplemented edition. Sofia, Science and Art, 1976. p. 515.
- Gadzhev, Ivan. History of Bulgarian Emigration to North America: An Inside Look, Volume 1, Institute of the History of Bulgarian Emigration to North America, Iliya T. Gadzhev, 2003, p. 368.
- Roumen Daskalov, Tchavdar Marinov. Entangled Histories of the Balkans, Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies, BRILL, 2013,, p. 322. "Other members of the St. Petersburg circle from 1902–1903 seem more coherent in their Macedonian nationalism. Such is the case of Dimitrija Čupovski who, in 1913, started publishing the Russian-language journal Makedonskiy golos (Macedonian Voice). Both in it and in periodicals of Russian Slavophiles, Čupovski published a number of articles that emphasized Macedonians' distinctive ethnic character and countered Bulgarian, Greek and Serbian propaganda."
- Book: Ersoy . Ahmet . Górny . Maciej . Kechriotis . Vangelis . Modernism: Representations of National Culture . 2010 . Central European University Press . 9786155211942 . 351.
- Book: Bechev, Dimitar . Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers . 2019 . 9781538119624 . 84.
- Book: Mihajlovski, Robert . The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır . Brill . 2021 . 9789004465268 . 219.
