| Summary: | Background. The proposed article examines the issues of coverage in the Soviet provincial press of the events of the autumn of 1923 in Krakow, which were called the “Krakow uprisingˮ. Soviet newspapers, being the mouthpiece of the Bolshevik leadership, submitted material in accordance with the ideas of the ruling communist elite, which wan-ted to form certain stereotypes, ideas, images of certain events among the population. Materials and methods. To understand this, the materials of provincial newspapers of va-rious cities of the USSR for 1923 – “Evening News. Special issue” (Kharkiv), “Banner of the Revolutionˮ (Taganrog), “Commune” (Samara), “Red Army” (Kiev), “Red Way” (Eli-zavetgrad), “Red North” (Vologda), “Proletarian” (Kharkiv), “Soviet Siberia” (Novosi-birsk), “Tverskaya Pravda” (Tver). The analysis was subjected not only to informational materials, “editorials”, but also to author’s analytical articles, as well as reprinted from central publications, most often from the newspapers “Pravda” and “Izvestia”. Results and conclusions. As a result of the research, the author came to the conclusion that the Soviet newspapers did not immediately “notice” what happened in Krakow: the celebration of the next anniversary of the October Revolution and the events in Germany overshadowed what happened in Poland, despite the fact that throughout the autumn of 1923, newspapers in-formed readers about the growth of the revolutionary movement in Poland. The growing discontent resulted in the capture of Krakow by the rebels on November 5 and the transfer to the side of the rebels of two military regiments. Assessing what happened in Krakow and some other Polish cities, the newspapers focused the reader’s attention on the treacherous role of the Polish Socialists, noting their corrupting role in the Polish labor movement in general and in the Krakow uprising in particular. Despite the short duration and defeat of the uprising, the newspapers reflected an optimistic view of the development of the Polish revolutionary movement and the prospects for a world revolution.
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