Categories | Propaganda magazine |
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Frequency | Weekly |
Founder | Union of Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship |
Founded | 1932 |
Final issue | 1968 |
Based in | Prague |
Language | Czech |
Svět sovětů (Czech: The World of the Soviets) was an illustrated magazine published in Prague between 1932 and 1968. It is known as a propaganda magazine supporting close relations with the Soviet Union.
History and profile
Svět sovětů was established by the Union of Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship in 1932. The goal of the magazine was to reinforce friendship between Soviet and Czech citizens. It frequently contained propaganda material supporting the Soviet government. It was published on a weekly basis in Prague. Its subtitle was Illustrated weekly of friends of the USSR after 1945. In the late 1950s the magazine was redesigned, and its format was enlarged. It also began to cover more color photographs.
The circulation of Svět sovětů was around 3,000 copies in 1967. The magazine ceased publication in 1968.
References
- ^ Rachel Applebaum (Fall 2015). "The Friendship Project: Socialist Internationalism in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s". Slavic Review. 74 (3): 496–497. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.3.484.
- Jindřich Toman (2008). "Émigré Traces: John Heartfield in Prague". History of Photography. 32 (3): 281. doi:10.1080/03087290802018892.
- East European Accessions Index. Vol. 4. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1955. p. 5.
- ^ "Svět sovětů". cbvk.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 18 June 2023.