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New Albania
New Albania was a political, social and cultural illustrated periodical appearing bi-monthly in Albanian, Chinese, Russian, French, English and Arabic. It started its publication in the early days of the Socialist Republic, in 1947, and was published until everything fell apart in Albania in 1991.
Through the use of pictures, cartoons, stories and short pieces about the people and the lifestyle of ordinary Albanian workers the magazine sought to provide a view of the country that was otherwise never publicised in the rest of the world. This covered such aspects of Albanian society as Socialist industry, collectivised agriculture and education. Also it sought to give an introduction to the history of the country with articles on archaeology, linguistics, folklore and traditional dress and activities, literature, cinema and the history of art in the pre-Socialist era.
The magazine, which was lighter in its presentation, preceded the publication of ‘Albania Today’ (from the end of 1971), which was much more of a theoretical magazine that made a contribution to the various debates in the International Communist Movement.
At the moment we only have access to a limited number of issues and they will be posted as soon as possible. As with the request made on the ‘Albania Today’ page we would always welcome the loan of missing issues so that they, too, can be made available to a wider readership.
1969
- JV Stalin – Lenin’s faithful disciple and comrade in arms
- The revolutionary spirit in Albanian painting and sculpture by A Kuqali
- A chapter from ‘The Castle’ by Ismail Kadare
- Andrea Aleksi – a distinguished sculpture of the XV century
1970
- ‘Ideas engraved on stone’ – the story of sculpture in Socialist Albania
- Our folk dances
- Attempt upon the king’s life
- Our Encyclopedia – answers to questions about Albania
- The school which gives eyesight to the blind
- A happy old age
- We, the youth of the plant
- Cadres who are engaged in production work
- The most ‘privileged’ – young children in Socialist Albania
- The patient and the scalpel – medicine in Socialist Albania
- Past Values Preservation Institute – restoration of religious buildings
- What do we vote for?
- Together with the geologists
- The Green Laboratories
- Youth taking part in mass undertakings
- A nation rising in arms
- Electrification of Albania
- The way of copper
- ‘The Golden Necklace’ is brought to Tirana
- Our Riviera
- A children’s hospital
- Nuclear Energy in the service of mankind
- Albania in International Fairs and Exhibitions
- Saplings of music
- Illyrians and Albanians
- The Mosaics of Lini
1971
- Capital investments in the years 1961-1970
- Land and water
- Monuments modeled in rock
- Students in overalls
- Our glass …
- Prospectors for Black Gold
- Divjaka renewed
- Fields with roofs
- Horizons opened to our Power Industry
- Bertolt Brecht on the stage of the Albanian Theatre
- From the spark the flame was born
- The light and food industry
- Compulsory education
- Albanian Folk Costume
- Our Agricultural Cooperatives at their present stage
- A preview of the New Five-Year Plan
- The wartime press
- Greetings to you, Mirdita!
- Rails penetrate mountains
- Development of horticulture
- In November 1941 (Party Foundation)
- The Agricultural Cooperative ‘Partisan’ in 1971
- A word from those born 30 years ago
- Albania at International Fairs
- Folk instruments of our people
- Strides taken under Five-year Plans
- A new stage – 6th Congress of PLA
- One for all and all for one – housing in Tirana
- Our younger generation
- Living colours – 1971 National Exhibition of Figurative Art
1972
- For protecting and strengthening the health of the people
- Albanian painting of the 19th century
- Commemorative remembrance of Fan S Noli
- Underground waters
- The Cooperative members discuss their problems
- The Southern Illyrians and the origin of the Albanians in the light of a new scientific synthesis
- Jan Myrdal on Albania
- The making of an artist – Abdurrahim Buza
- The trade union organization at the oil refinery
- The young pioneers at their palace
- The Congress of the class in power
- Anti-epidemic barriers
- Our folklore during the period of the war for national liberation and that of socialist construction
- Good care is being taken of our monuments of culture
- In sculptor Janaq Paço’s studio
- On the founding of the Academy of Sciences in the People’s Republic of Albania.
- Higher education reaches new records
- Agricultural cooperative members receive pensions
- The birthplace of the National Liberation Front
- Our painters – to be touring the country
1974
- The iron generation
- Industrialized Albania
- The counter-offensive of the Albanian National Liberation Army in February and March 1944
- The congress which solved the problem of political power
- Guaranteeing the right to work
1975
- People and light
- Fields of prosperity
- A beautiful tradition of the younger generation
- Physical-military tempering
- Seven questions on the medical service
- The occupiers were thrown back into the sea
- Comrade Enver Hoxha among the workers of Korça and Pogradec
- The first revolution in the social-economic relations of the countryside
- Six questions on education in Albania
- At the construction sites of the five- year plan
- Those who feel no old age
- The medical service in a remote mountainous area
- November 29th – the day crowning the great victory
- On drawing up the New Constitution of the People’s Republic of Albania
- The day of independence
- What do you know about the Albanian countryside?
- What is indirect income?
- The Lura Lakes
- Malai – short story
1976
- A document of major political and juridical importance – the New Constitution
- Thirty years of People’s Republic
- The Albanian people honoured the memory of Comrade Chou En-lai
- People who march faster than time
- Comrade Enver Hoxha among the workers of Vlora
- On the lowering of higher wages
- On the further narrowing of the fundamental distinctions between town and countryside
- Participation in production and in political-social life – the way to the emancipation of women
- The village doctor
- Albanian school – past and present
- An entirely new town – Kukes
- May Day – 1976
- They live in the hearts and work of the people
- Comrade Enver Hoxha receives a group of workers and specialists of the metallurgical complex
- In the days of the National Liberation War
- Shkodra – past and present
- Cooperative members as amateur artists
- The way to prosperity
- Promoter of the Revolution and Socialist Construction
- Mass actions of our youth
- For self and for society
- The upper agricultural institute
- The hero of the new Albanian literature
- What does this monument stand for? – Mushqeta
- The Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the Party of Labour of Albania
- The generation of builders of socialism
- One-third of the population at school
- Perpetuation of their heroism
- The stone mason from Borova
- Self-sacrifice for the homeland
- People’s Art in Albania
- The 7th Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania
- Some of the principal targets of the 6th Five-year Plan
- Albania achieves self-sufficiency in bread grain
- A reflection of the progress of the figurative arts
- The Communists of the plant
- A new stage in vocational secondary education
- The Basilica at Ballsh
1977
- The Fifth Session of the People’s Assembly
- The rapid development of Albanian science
- Vanguard medical service aiming mainly at preventing disease
- Public health and preventive medicine in the People’s Republic of Albania
- Geologists without diplomas
- Among our future artists
- Gjirokastra
- Mathematics to the aid of medicine
- Study of the methods of popular medicine
- The 90th Anniversary of the first Albanian school
- The opinion of the masses in the activity of our courts of justice
- Sport among women
- The 8th Congress of the Albanian Trade Unions
- May Day 1977
- Our foreign trade is growing and developing
- Achievements and prospects of the engineering industry
- The Socialist Cultural Revolution and the People’s National Culture
- Publications for children
- A mosaic of fields
- Summer days at Pogradec
- Peoples Army Day
- Graduates from the Higher Institute of Arts
- Ten questions and ten answers on the health service
- The system of pensions for members of agricultural co-operatives
- The school close to the field
- The problem of the origin of the Albanian people and their language
- The younger generation of Socialist Albania
- Seven questions about education
- Great achievements and projects in hydro-electric power
- One day at the kindergarten
- Health and Environment
- The workshop in the field
- Legends about musical instruments
- The valley of steel
- Vast olive plantations
- The further development of the non-ferrous metallurgical industry
- Inexhaustible source of inspiration
- Self-reliance – a Great Marxist-Leninist Principle in the Construction of Socialism and the Defence of the Country
- Pupil-teacher-parent
- A brief history of the Albanian book
1978
- Comrade Enver Hoxha amidst pioneers
- 30th anniversary of the magazine, ‘New Albania’
- Fierza, 1978
- The Albanian League founded in Prizren
- The Socialist countryside in the works of our painters and sculptors
- Afforestation of hills and mountains
- Preservation and restoration of the monuments of culture
- ‘Profarma’ – trade mark of Albanian medicines