Propaganda in the World and Local Conflicts

Number 2 (6), 2016

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The Advocacy Activities of the Foreign Emissaries in the North-Western Caucasus

Authors: Vladimir B. Karataev

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The article deals with advocacy of foreign agents in the North-Western Caucasus during the Caucasian war (1801–1864). Certain attention is paid to the external political reasons of emissaries’ participation in the Caucasian War. The documents of regional archives, namely from the State Archives of the Krasnodar region, as well as modern scientific literature served as materials for this article. A part of the archival sources is introduced for the first time. The conclusion states that emissaries carried out diverse advocacy activities against the Russian Empire in the North-West Caucasus. Their work manifested in the spread of proclamations, instigating the Highlanders to fight against Russia, spread of false information and instructors’ activities. The emissaries also took part in combat.

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The Annexation of Bessarabia and Bukovina in the Pages of the Soviet Periodical Press (based on the Materials from the Krasnoye Znamya Newspaper)

Authors: Konstantin V. Taran

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The article makes use of the materials of the Soviet periodical press to give an insight into the annexation of Bessarabia and Bukovina to the Soviet Union. It particularly focuses on the operations which involved airborne troops of the Red Army and the rhetoric adopted by the Soviet press. The materials used include the issues of the Krasnoye Znamya (The Red Banner) newspaper published between July 2 and 10, 1940. The article also resorts to scientific works on the subject discussed, which helped reconstruct the overall picture of the events at the time. At the end, the author concludes that the materials of the Soviet periodical press, describing the integration of Bessarabia and Bukovina into the Soviet Union, are an important source which allows us, in retrospect, to have a closer look at these events. The periodical press enables us to analyze fields of action the Soviet propaganda acted in, as well as the propaganda rhetoric in the pre-war period. In the annexation period, the Krasnoye Znamya newspaper covers the following key topics in its propaganda articles: 1. The invincibility of the Red Army, 2. The main mission of the Red Army is the Liberator army, 3. Blackening the previous history of the annexed territories and portraying a magnificent vision of the future.

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Mass Collaborationist Print Media in the Kursk region during the German Occupation

Authors: Sergei Bogdanov, Vladimir Ostapuk

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The article is devoted to the organization of the German occupation authorities and their collaborators from among the local collaborators of large-scale psychological war against the population of Kursk region in 1941–1943. As the information base used in documents that are stored in the archives of the Russian Federal Security Service of the Office of the Kursk region and Belgorod region. Particular attention is given to the use of the German invaders mass of publications that began to emerge in the regional and in many regional centers of the Kursk region. The German command after the defeat near Moscow was forced to make certain adjustments to the policy of the occupation authorities for the development of civil and military collaboration in the population occupied Soviet territory. One such area was the intensification of mass propaganda of the population of the occupied territories, as well as Soviet prisoners of war. Considered filling newspapers with information materials, ways of presenting it. Identified individual stylistic features of the pro-Nazi newspapers published in Kursk frontline during the German occupation. It presents information on the individual editor in chief of the collaborationist mass of publications that appeared in the Kursk region in the occupation period.

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Dynamic Lighting Atrocities Occupiers and their Collaborators in the Soviet Press in 1943: the Question of the Preparation of the Information Krasnodar Process

Authors: Irina G. Tazhidinova

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The article examines the processes of mediatization that accompanied the trials of war criminals in the USSR. As an example, a first public trial of accomplices of the Nazi invaders, held in July 1943 in the city of Krasnodar. Content analytical research publications in the regional newspaper "Bolshevik", covering the problems of enemy atrocities in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union, allowed to reveal the role of the Soviet print media in the preparation process of Krasnodar. This role was to discharge hatred of the enemy on an emotional level; objective basis for this and acted statistics detailing the atrocities of the Nazis in the liberated from the occupation of the territories of the country. Dynamics of publications on this topic are also stimulated by the need to produce the desired effect in the international community, to respond to the provocation "information events" by the Nazis. Regarding the process of presentation of Krasnodar in the Soviet press it concluded that it was distinguished by the magnitude, integrity and compliance with the ideological standards. This feed topics of war crimes in the territory of the USSR and the coming retribution for them possible to effectively tackle current domestic and foreign policy objectives.

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Archetypes and Propaganda

Authors: Christo Kaftandjiev

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Some of the major archetypes and their application in various mass communications (in propaganda, advertising, journalism, etc.) are analyzed in the article. At the beginning the notion “archetype” is defined as matrix in our subconscious that makes us to act a certain way from the standpoint of our greatness. Classification of archetypes is proposed, namely physical (light/darkness; dry/wet); spatial (right/left; up/down; center/periphery; symmetric/asymmetric; inside/outside); biological (man/woman; strong/weak; young/old; beautiful/ugly; big/small; healthy/sick); psychological (honest/villain); social (we/others; freedom/slavery; order/chaos; rich/poor; known/unknown; nature/machine; work/pleasure); cultural (paradise/hell; clean/dirty etc.). The main characteristics of the different archetypes are unconsciousness, mythologicalness and biological, and cultural conditioning. Archetype light/darkness and archetype left/right are analyzed in details on the basis of many examples of various communications and propaganda. The reason for their efficiency and very high spread is not so much in unscrupulous communicators – writers, journalists, propagandists, clergy, politicians, etc., but in the natural predisposition of each of us to this type of communication. Archetypes give us a simple answer to all questions, don’t bother us with mental effforts and fit perfectly to the dark side of our subconscious thinking.

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Postage Stamps in Propaganda: the German Secret Services and Repressive Apparatus

Authors: Timur A. Magsumov

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The review analyzes the book by Yuriy N. Logvinenko, entitled German Secret Services and Repressive Apparatus between the 7th and 20th Centuries: A Literary and Historical Study through the Lens of Philately, published in 2014. The book by Logvinenko is one of the few works which look at the German propaganda and the way it is represented in postage stamps. The reviewer considers this literary and historical study as a scientific and journalistic work which includes all basic elements of scientific research, is written in simple and clear language and richly illustrated. These factors, taken together, are sure to generate widespread interest to the book. The author primarily focuses on the secret services and repressive agencies which operated in Nazi Germany, as well as describes the history of German espionage and investigation operations in the Middle Ages and modern times, and the country's security services in the 5 decades between its division and reunification. The reviewer emphasizes the importance of the personalistic perspective adopted in the book, its respect to the German history, vivid historical and philatelic sketches on a variety of subjects, and patriotic and educational value of the work. The book also outlines possibilities of using the materials for learning purposes.