''Kultuur ja Elu'' (meaning "Culture and Life" in English) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n magazine dedicated to culture.

History and profile

''Kultuur ja Elu'' has been issued since 1958. In the 21st century, the journal developed into an almost exclusively military history publication, dealing primarily with the fate of Estonian soldiers in World War II. At times she was suspected of having a fondness for National Socialism. During the Soviet times the magazine was a publication of the Ministry of Culture of

Estonian SSR The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an ethnically based adminis ...

and Estonian SSR Council of Trade Unions. Between 1858 and 1958 its name was ''Kultuuritöötaja'' (meaning ''Worker of Culture'' in English). Its content was related to "workers of culture", i.e., artists, actors, writers, critics, ets. It also published short literary works and has a section of photography. Since the 1990s, after re-establishing independence by Estonia, its main topics has included crimes of the

Soviet regime The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Co ...

and struggle for freedom against

Communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

and Soviet state. Following the privatization of the press the magazine began to be published by Perioodika.

Editors-in-chief

* Friedrich Issak * Sirje Endre (1984–1993) * Jüri Estam (in the mid-1990s) *

Andres Herkel Andres Herkel (born 14 August 1962) is an Estonian politician. He started his public activities in the late 1980s. From the very beginning of the independence movement in Estonia, he affiliated himself with pro-independence forces, which had clos ...

(1991–1992, editor-in-chief of the supplement ''Eesti Elu'' (meaning "Estonian Life" in English))Andres Herkel ''curriculum vitae''
/ref> *Tea Kurvits (since 2009)

References

External links

Official website
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