Smena Magazine, No. 19-20, 1942

An original and rather rare magazine in good collector's condition, minor losses. The format is 162*246 mm. Lots of black and white illustrations. 64 pages. Newspaper printing house "Really." The circulation is 60,000 copies . Guarantee of authenticity.

Smena is a Soviet, and then a 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 "Change" 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 decorated by the famous Soviet artist, the founder of constructivism Alexander Rodchenko. Since its foundation, the magazine has had a literary section in which the premiere publications of books that later became bestsellers were published. The information and journalistic section in Soviet times performed mainly a propaganda role, but since the mid-1980s, when Albert Likhanov was the editor-in-chief, the magazine began to raise topics previously considered forbidden (rock music, youth subcultures, the fight against bureaucracy, etc.). Since 1990, due to the fact that the USSR did not have printing facilities for the production of a sharply increased circulation of the magazine (3,500,000 copies), the "Shift" became "thick" and monthly (before that it was published twice a month ). Nowadays, Smena magazine publishes action-packed novels and novellas, short stories and poems by Russian and foreign writers, journalism, essays and cultural articles.