Kansa Taisteli

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Kansa Taisteli
CategoriesMen's magazine
Military magazine
FrequencyQuarterly (1957-1958)
Monthly (1958-1986)
PublisherBonnier Publications
Year founded1957
Final issue1986
CountryFinland
Based inHelsinki
LanguageFinnish
ISSN0451-3371
OCLC476922457

Kansa Taisteli (meaning The People Fought in English) was a Finnish language monthly men's magazine which provided 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 Landserhef, a German magazine.[1]

History and profile[]

Kansa Taisteli was launched in 1957[2] and published four times a year.[3] In 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[]

  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". In Henrik G. Bastiansen; Rolf Werenskjold (eds.). The Nordic Media and the Cold War (PDF). 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. 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. ISSN 1570-0844. 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.

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