Nachrichten

Nachrichten ('News') was a Volga German communist newspaper, published between 1918 and 1941. Nachrichten was the organ of the Communist Party in the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

The newspaper was founded under the name Vorwärts ('Forward') by the German Commissariat in Saratov in March 1918. Vorwärts was the first Bolshevik newspaper directed towards the Volga German colonists. It carried the by-line 'Organ of the Socialists in the German Volga territory' (Organ der Sozialisten des deutschen Wolgagebiets). The name was changed to Nachrichten in June 1918, as the Bolsheviks wanted to avoid any association with the SPD organ Vorwärts. The newspaper used Gothic font, but switched to Latin font sometime in the mid-1930s.