Myths of Russia as a tool of socio-political persuasion
Mythologization as a tool of engineering international policy towards Russia has played and still plays a pivotal role in modelling the public opinion. Mythologization is not entirely a centrally controlled tool. The emergence of myths about Russia and Russians has always followed a bottom-up patter...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Elpis |
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| Online Access: | https://elpis.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/Elpis/article/view/105 |
| Summary: | Mythologization as a tool of engineering international policy towards Russia has played and still plays a pivotal role
in modelling the public opinion. Mythologization is not entirely a centrally controlled tool. The emergence of myths about
Russia and Russians has always followed a bottom-up pattern and its results have been invariably transferred into the
political dimension. The sources of these processes date back to the medieval times and the onset of the modern era. |
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| ISSN: | 1508-7719 |