Lenin–Stalinnin tugunun adaa-pile

Lenin–Stalinnьꞑ tugunuꞑ adaa-pile (in Tuvan language, meaning 'Under the Banner of Lenin and Stalin' - later written in Cyrillic script as 'Ленин-Сталинның тугунуң адаа-биле') or Pod znamenem Lenina-Stalina ('Под знаменем Ленина — Сталина', in Russian language), was a magazine published from Kyzyl, Tuvan People's Republic (later the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union) between 1942 and 1945.[1][2] It functioned as the theoretical magazine of the Central Committee of the Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party.[3][4] The magazine was published in Russian and Tuvan language versions.[1][5] During 1942-1945 some 5,500 copies of the Russian version and some 16,000 copies of the Tuvan version were printed.[1]

Pod znamenem Lenina-Stalina, issue 2, 1942

The magazine began publishing in August 1942.[6] It was issued by the recently-founded Tuva State Publishing House (Tuvgosizdat).[6] Salchak Toka was the editor in chief of the magazine.[6] Over the course of its existence editors of the Russian language edition Pod znamenem Lenina-Stalina included V. Belov, M. Volkov, Alexander Palmbach, G. Miroshnichenko, M. Suschevsky and Y. Kalinichev.[6]

The first issue of the Tuvan language version was titled Lenin–Stalinnьꞑ oruu-pile ('On the Path of Lenin and Stalin'), but from the second issue onwards the name Lenin–Stalinnьꞑ tugunuꞑ adaa-pile was used.[1][7] Until the end of 1944 the Tuvan version was written in new Tuvan Latin script, after which it switched to Cyrillic script.[1]

The Russian and Tuvan versions of the magazine did not have identical contents.[1] For example, the first issue of the Tuvan edition in 1942 included 16 articles (with the first two pieces being written by Stalin and Molotov respectively), whilst its Russian-language counterpart included 10 articles (with the first piece being written by Toka).[1]

The magazine covered issues relating to the political, economic, cultural, scientific and statistical affairs of the republic.[6] Per Aranchyn (1982) the publication called for the 'abolition of feudalism and overcoming its religious ideology, for the construction of a non-capitalist economic system and development of a new revolutionary-democratic culture based on Marxist methodology and revolutionary practice'.[8] In 1943 the magazine carried an article by P. Kalinichev titled 'Folklore of the Tuvan People', that classified Tuvan folklore with emphasis on its class and national character.[9] The young Tuvan writer Salchak Samba-Lündup outlined a theory on development of Tuvan literature in an article titled 'Socialist Realism'.[10]

70 copies of the magazine, in both Russian and Tuvan editions, are held at the Rare Books collections of the Tuva National Museum.[1]