Советский Союз

Sovetskii Soyuz

Soviet Union

Sowjetunion

L'Union Sovietique

Moscow: Pravda, 1950 - 1990

An illustrated monthly especially printed to propagate the Soviet Union abroad. The large format magazine (until 1960: 400 x 300 mm and after 1960: 340 x 265 mm.) was also published in Russian, but the main aim of this monthly was to reach out to foreign, and not domestic readers. It is the Successor to SSSR na stroike, the USSR in construction that was published from 1930 to 1949, when Stalin decided that the Soviet Union was no longer under construction. Between March 1950 and November 1990 there were 488 issues published. The LS Collection has the complete set except for issue no. 12, 1963. Whether issue no. 12, December 1990 ever was printed is not known. The monthly was published in Russian, German, English and French and 15 other languages and the main place in the magazine was occupied by documentary photographs, photo essays and reporting nonfiction articles. The magazine covered the life of the peoples of the USSR, the achievements of the Soviet economy, science, technology, culture, art, and showed the life of the Soviet people. Much attention was paid to the photo chronicle of the foreign policy of the USSR. There were also colour reproductions, fairy tales for children, as well as a section for women and answers to questions from foreign readers.

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