Key words: “Igbal” newspaper, history of the press, author, national consciousness, national idea, enlightenment
Summary
The newspaper “Igbal” united the most advanced intellectuals of the time and succeeded in spreading the ideas of national liberation more widely and rapidly. The struggle that “Iqbal” started for the national future was continued through the following newspapers, “Yeni Igbal” and “Achiq Soz”. The publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, as well as the vast majority of its authors, later became the founders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic” [8: P. 38]. In a period when the ideas of freedom were rising, the authors, realizing the unnecessaryness of the tsarist-style administration, expressed their objections to it, spread revolutionary-democratic ideas with great confidence that a movement that began with enlightenment would end with freedom and called on the people to a great liberation struggle.
