Anglia
Editor-in-chiefNed Thomas
Former editorsWright Miller
CategoriesPropaganda magazine
PublisherInformation Research Department
Founded1962
Final issue1992
LanguageRussian

Anglia was a propaganda magazine which was published by the Information Research Department, a propaganda agency of the British Foreign Office in the period 1962–1992. The title of the magazine was a reference to the familiar name for Britain in the Soviet Union. Similar naming procedures were also employed for other propaganda periodicals such as Amerika and Jugoslavija both of which were distributed in the Soviet Union.[1]

History and profile

Anglia was launched by the British propaganda agency Information Research Department in 1962.[1][2] The magazine was printed in the United Kingdom and distributed in the Soviet Union.[2] It came out quarterly.[2][3] The founding editor-in-chief was Wright Miller who was replaced by Ned Thomas in the post in 1967.[1] The magazine was used as a tool for visual diplomacy.[4] It adopted a positive propaganda approach and featured articles in which the United Kingdom was shown as a wealthy, progressive and democratic country.[1] The magazine also covered articles about the British literature and music.[1] Children's literature by the British writers was also featured in the magazine[2] which folded in 1992.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sarah Davies (2013). "The Soft Power of Anglia: British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR" (PDF). Contemporary British History. 27 (3): 302, 309–310. doi:10.1080/13619462.2013.794695. S2CID 144961350.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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.
  3. ↑ 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. pp. 218–234. ISBN 978-1-78238-866-1.
  4. ↑ Annette Vowinckel (2019). "The Berlin Wall: Photographic Diplomacy in a Globalised World". In Simo Mikkonen; Giles Scott-Smith; Jari Parkkinen (eds.). Entangled East and West Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction during the Cold War. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. p. 69. doi:10.1515/9783110573169. ISBN 9783110570502.
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