‘Sputnik’ Soviet Women’s Magazine, 1978

5 comments to ‘Sputnik’ Soviet Women’s Magazine, 1978

• Darrell

  December 18, 2011 at 5:23 am · Reply

  OK, I think I get this now. Ths isn’t a women’s mag. The refer on the front is just for a story on women’s issues. This mag is more like The Week, I think.

• Plastic Ecploding

  December 23, 2011 at 6:23 pm · Reply

  I actually subscribed to Sputnik when I was a high school student in rural Minnesota in the early eighties. A place in Chicago handled the subscriptions, but the magazine actually got mailed from the USSR. It didn’t look much different from the way it looked here, about five or so years earlier. It was a digest of the Soviet press, as advertized: different articles on different subjects, aimed at a general interest audience, and usually with an ad for a Soviet product or service or publication in the back.

• PJPJPJ

  March 8, 2012 at 3:25 am · Reply

  My Nanna used to read this in the 70s in Australia. This reminds me of her. She had been a Tsarist like her husband, and fled the civil war. She was disdainful of the Soviet Union but could never resist finding out about it.

• Archie

  May 17, 2012 at 3:15 pm · Reply

  The cabbage recipe sounds pretty tasty.

• Alan Bickerstaff

  May 18, 2012 at 2:32 pm · Reply

  Interesting. I assume this was a magazine designed to promote travel to the USSR – Sputnik does translate as traveller, after all. Nice picture of Yuri Gagarin apparently fondling Valentine Tereshkova’s ear. Not the normal stiff, formal portrait you would expect.