Prosveshcheniye (, 'Enlightenment') was a legal Bolshevik socio-political and literary monthly magazine in Russia. History and profile Prosveshcheniye began publication in St. Petersburg in December 1911. Maxim Gorky was editor of the fiction section. Its inauguration was proposed by Lenin to replace the Bolshevik journal Mysl (Thought), a Moscow publication banned by the tsarist government. The magazine was banned by the tsarist government on the eve of the First World War in June 1914. One further issue (a double one) appeared in the autumn of 1917. References Defunct literary magazines published in Europe Defunct political magazines Magazines established in 1911 Magazines disestablished in 1917 Marxist magazines Monthly magazines published in Russia Russian-language magazines Political magazines published in Russia Defunct magazines published in Russia Magazines published in Saint Petersburg Literary magazines published in Russia