Britanskii Soiuznik

Britanskii Soiuznik (Russian: British Ally) was a weekly British propaganda periodical which existed between 1942 and 1950.

Britanskii Soiuznik
CategoriesPropaganda magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1942
First issue10 July 1942
Final issue1950
CompanyBritish Ministry of Information
LanguageRussian

History and profile

Britanskii Soiuznik was launched by the British Ministry of Information in 1942.[1][2] The first issue appeared on 10 July that year.[3] The magazine was established as a result of the Soviet–British Treaty signed in 1942.[4][5] Another publication entitled Britanskaia Khronika (Russian: The British Chronicle) was also started in the framework of this treaty.[5]

Its stated goal was to tell the Russians the daily life of British people to establish a friendly relationship between two nations.[3] George Reavey was the director of the magazine which was published in Russian on a weekly basis.[6][7] It contained articles about military and cultural events emphasizing the collaboration between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union and featured writings of the British writers.[6] Children's literature by the British writers was also featured in the magazine.[6] It gained popularity among Russians in addition to the US propaganda publication Amerika.[8] Britanskii Soiuznik reached the circulation of 14,000 copies in 1946 and had readers mostly in Moscow and in a few other Soviet cities.[6] Its circulation was 50,000 copies in 1949.[2] The magazine folded in 1950 due to tense relations between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.[4][6]

References
  1. John Jenks (2006). British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 22. doi:10.1515/9780748626755. ISBN 9780748626755.
  2. Leonid T. Trofimov (2004). The Soviet media at the onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950 (PhD thesis). University of Illinois at Chicago. pp. 65, 163. ISBN 978-0-496-87103-2. ProQuest 305075709.
  3. Pauline Fairclough (August 2016). "Brothers in musical arms: the wartime correspondence of Dmitrii Shostakovich and Henry Wood". Russian Journal of Communication. 8 (3): 85–86. doi:10.1080/19409419.2016.1213219. S2CID 151854691.
  4. Sarah Davies (2015). "The Soviet Union Encounters Anglia: Britain's Russian Magazine as a Medium for Cross-Border Communication". In Simo Mikkonen; Pia Koivunen (eds.). Beyond the divide: Entangled histories of Cold War Europe. New York; London: Berghahn Books. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-78238-866-1.
  5. Vladimir O. Pechatnov (1998). "The Rise and Fall of Britansky Soyuznik: A Case Study in Soviet Response to British Propaganda of the Mid-1940s". The Historical Journal. 41 (1): 293–301. doi:10.1017/S0018246X97007577. JSTOR 2640154. S2CID 159914237.
  6. Elena Goodwin (2019). Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-1-350-13401-0.
  7. Pamela Davidson (2009). "Pasternak's letters to C.M. Bowra (1945–1956)". In Lazar Fleishman (ed.). The Life of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Oakland, CA: Berkeley Slavic Specialties. p. 85. ISBN 9781572010802.
  8. Alexey Tikhomirov (October 2015). "Book review". The Slavonic and East European Review. 93 (4): 779.
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