The Red Army Agitator's Notebook magazine. Military Publishing House of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR, July 1945

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the country's leadership changed the system of ideological work: by order of the Headquarters of the Supreme Command in July 1941, the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army was created, which led propaganda in the army. Based on its own publishing base, the GlavPU of the Red Army published the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, the magazine Agitator and Propagandist of the Red Army, and some other special military publications. The Department also published the magazine "Notebook of the Red Army Agitator", which until 1942 was called "Notebook of the Red Army Agitator".

Bloknot was a socio-political magazine that was published twice a month in Russian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Uzbek and Tatar languages since August 1942. It provided information about the exploits of Soviet people at the front and in the rear, explained the policy of the CPSU and the Soviet government on the construction of the Armed Forces, explained the requirements of the military oath and regulations, promoted the revolutionary, military and labor traditions of the Soviet people, and also cited the experience of army and navy agitators.