Anglia (magazine)

For the German linguistic journal, see Anglia (journal).

Anglia

Editor-in-chief	Ned Thomas
Former editors	Wright Miller (1962–1967)
Categories	Propaganda magazine
Frequency	Quarterly
Publisher	Information Research Department
Founded	1962
Final issue	1992
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Russian

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

History and profile

Anglia was launched by Information Research Department in 1962. ^{[1] [2]} The magazine was printed in the United Kingdom and distributed in the Soviet Union. ^[2] It was published quarterly. ^{[2] [3]}

The founding editor-in-chief of Anglia was Wright Miller who was replaced in 1967 by Ned Thomas. ^[1] The magazine was 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 included articles about British literature and music ^[1] and children's literature by British writers. ^{[1] [2]}

Anglia folded in 1992. ^[1]

References

1. Sarah Davies (2013). "The Soft Power of Anglia: British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR". Contemporary British History . 27 (3): 302, 309–310. doi:10.1080/13619462.2013.794695. S2CID   144961350.
2. 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.