Anglia (magazine)

*Anglia*
Editor-in-chief	Ned Thomas
Former editors	Wright Miller
Categories	Propaganda magazine
Publisher	Information Research Department
Year founded	1962
Final issue	1992
Language	Russian

Anglia was a Russian language propaganda magazine in the Soviet Union 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 the Britain in the Soviet Union. This kind of naming procedure was also 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 the British propaganda agency Information Research Department in 1962.[1] The magazine was published on a quarterly basis.[2] 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.[3] 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] It folded in 1992.[1]

References

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.
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.
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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[sard-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] 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.

[3] 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.