[1][4] On January 3, 1924, the newspaper Pravda announced the release of the "political and economic" magazine of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b) as a weekly.
[8] In a 1955 issue in response to the ‘end of civilization’ argument, the magazine depicts the widespread belief of an inevitable end of global civilization with a war between the socialists and capitalists as merely a method of "poison[ing] the minds of the peoples with fatalism" and promoting a strong sense of pessimism.
[9] The propagation of this notion considered to be a means to discourage the rigour in socialists to fight by assuring an inevitable end of the world.
"[9] The magazine reveals an early understanding of the mutually-assured destruction doctrine in the Soviet media and also lashes out against American Imperialism.
[9] In 1958, a department of industry and transport was created to advise the editorial board from a professional standpoint on matters involving those two fields.
[11][12] Issue no.7 (1969) extensively discussed the efforts made by the "Mao Zedong group" to resist Soviet attempts to strengthen their friendship and trade.