ABSTRACT
In the aftermath of World War II, Soviet Union established a cluster of transnational organisations, which sought to be umbrellas for specific target groups but were often regarded as fronts. These included, for example, the World Federation of Trade Unions (1945), the Women's International Democratic Federation (1945), the World Federation of Scientific Workers (1946), the International Organization of Journalists (1946) and the World Peace Council (1949). This chapter examines one of those organisations, the International Union of Students and its journal World Student News, in particular. The chapter studies how this student journal of a pro-Soviet organisation backed the broader political agenda of the Soviet Union and the whole socialist bloc. By drawing on the issues of the journal in the 1970s as well as memoirs of the former editors-in-chief, the chapter analyses the tactics that the student journal, its staff and authors used in facilitating messages from Moscow but also in promoting regional agendas among the students in the West and in the Global South.
