The magazine was launched by the Labor Party and is known for its editor Torolf Elster who was a Norwegian journalist and author.
[4] Elster declared that two concepts were the key terms for Kontakt, democracy and the world.
[4] However, it frequently featured articles which attempted to clarify the ideological basis of the party.
[1] In each issue the magazine covered eight-page analysis of foreign policy news.
[1] Kontakt did not endorse the Soviet-backed coup d'état in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and began to support NATO from 1949.