Kansa Taisteli (Finnish: The People Fought) was a monthly men's magazine which featured articles on the memories of the war veterans. The magazine published in Helsinki, Finland, in the period 1957–1986. It was the Finnish version of Landserheft, a German magazine.[1]

Kansa Taisteli
Categories
  • Men's magazine
  • Military magazine
Frequency
  • Quarterly (1957-1958)
  • Monthly (1958-1986)
PublisherBonnier Publications
Founded1957
Final issue1986
CountryFinland
Based inHelsinki
LanguageFinnish
ISSN0451-3371
OCLC476922457

History and profile edit

Kansa Taisteli was launched in 1957[2] and published four times a year.[3] From 1958 its frequency became monthly.[3] The magazine was published by Bonnier Publications on a monthly basis.[2][4] The content of the magazine covered the memories of the soldiers who fought in the wars between Finland and the Soviet Union in the period 1939–1944 during World War II.[3][5]

In the first year Kansa Taisteli sold 30,000 copies.[3] The circulation was 80,000 copies in 1967, but became 30,000 copies in 1986 when it ceased publication.[2][3]

References edit

  1. ^ Ville Kivimäki (2012). "Between Defeat and Victory: Finnish memory culture of the Second World War". Scandinavian Journal of History. 37 (4): 490. doi:10.1080/03468755.2012.680178. S2CID 143665356.
  2. ^ a b c Laura Saarenmaa (2015). "Political Nonconformity in Finnish Men's Magazines during the Cold War" (PDF). In Henrik G. Bastiansen; Rolf Werenskjold (eds.). The Nordic Media and the Cold War. Göteborg: Nordicom. p. 104. ISBN 978-91-87957-15-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e Tiina Kinnunen; Markku Jokisipilä (2011). "Restricted Access Wars of Memory Shifting Images of "Our Wars": Finnish Memory Culture of World War II". In Tiina Kinnunen; Ville Kivimäki (eds.). Finland in World War II: History, Memory, Interpretations. Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill. pp. 445–446. ISBN 978-90-04-20894-0.
  4. ^ Mikko Koho; et al. (October 2020). "WarSampo Knowledge Graph: Finland in the Second World War as Linked Open Data". Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability. 12 (2): 265–278. doi:10.3233/SW-200392. S2CID 224902103.
  5. ^ Mari Pajala; Susanna Paasonen (2020). "Gay Porn, Politics and Lifestyle in 1980s Finland: The Short Life of Mosse Magazine". NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 28 (1): 33. doi:10.1080/08038740.2019.1692069. S2CID 213904432.