Smena magazine, March 1944

An original and rather rare magazine in good collector's condition. Format 260*325 mm. Lots of color and black-and-white illustrations. The block is fragmented. The volume of 16 bands. Guarantee of authenticity.

Smena was a Soviet and later Russian illustrated popular literary and art magazine. Founded in 1924, it was the most popular youth magazine of the Soviet Union. By the end of the 1980s, the circulation of "Smena" reached more than three million copies. Smena was founded by the decision of the Central Committee of the RKSM as a "bi-weekly magazine of working youth". The covers of the first issues are designed by the famous Soviet artist, the founder of constructivism Alexander Rodchenko. Since its Foundation, the magazine has had a literary section, which published the premiere publications of books that later became bestsellers. The information and journalistic section in Soviet times served mainly a propaganda role, but since the mid-1980s, when the editor-in-chief was albert Likhanov, the magazine began to raise topics that were previously considered forbidden (rock music, youth subcultures, the fight against bureaucracy, etc.). Since 1990, due to the fact that the USSR did not have the printing capacity to produce a sharply increased circulation of the magazine (3,500,000 copies), Smena became "thick" and monthly (before that it was published twice a month). Nowadays, the magazine "Smena" publishes action-Packed novels and novellas, short stories and poems by Russian and foreign writers, journalism, essays and cultural articles.