Propaganda in the World and Local Conflicts

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Authors: Aleksandr A. Cherkasov, Michal Smigel

The article describes the German military and civil advocacy on Krasnodar territory during the German occupation in 1942-1943. Pre-war events that have created fertile ground for the effective impact of propaganda are in focus. Documents of Central and regional Russian archives were used as materials for this article. The documents, stored in Fund № 69 (partisan movement headquarters) of the Russian State archive of socio-political history are essential for representing military German propaganda. The major part of the documents related to the civil advocacy is deposited in Fund Р-493 (Eysk City Council) of the Krasnodar region State archive. In conclusion, the authors note that propaganda is the most effective, when applied to the “fertile soil”. During the pre-war period, on the territory of Krasnodar region all conditions have been met for cooperation with the enemy to manifest itself en masse and in all its’ diversity: military and civilian.

95-108

Authors: Annick Valleau, Aleksandr A. Cherkasov

The article discusses the propaganda of the Third Reich on the territory of the Baltic States during the Second world war. The authors have selected as sources of post-soviet historiography on the Baltic States during the Second world war, as well as materials of personal origin – the memoirs of german and soviet military commanders and representatives of the administration. We used the historical-situational method, which involves the study of historical facts in the context of the reviewed period in conjunction with the "neighboring" events and facts. In particular, the historical-situational method was used when considering the history of the Baltic army units in the Wehrmacht and the Red army. The authors conclude that the german administration in the Baltic States has received the quite substantial support for its armed forces. However, this support could be even more serious if the German administration has gone on another propaganda move – the timely recognition of the Baltic States as allies.

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Authors: Vadim A. Nesterenko

The article discusses the propaganda campaigns of the German army in 1944 and, in particular, describes one of the largest German propaganda operations on the Eastern front – the operation "East Scorpion". The attention is paid to the process of establishing a Committee for the liberation of the peoples of Russia. The author concludes that, if these operations would be undertaken 2 years earlier, the result could be different. In 1944, time has been irretrievably lost, and the formation of the Russian national government did not play a decisive role in the Second World War.

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Authors: Anvar M. Mamadaliev

The article discusses the Abwehr’ activities in organization of diversionary personnel. They are intended to work on the Eastern front. The article is paid attention to the propaganda methods of recruitment of agents among the former soviet citizens. Among the sources there are used the materials of modern historiography, devoted to the problems of training the diversionary personnel during the Second World War. The methodological basis of the study were the principles of objectivity and historicism, suggesting an unbiased approach to the analysis of the studied problems, a critical attitude to the sources, the judgments in the analysis of the totality of the facts and the screening phenomena in the development and the context of the historical situation. In conclusion the author notes that in the process of training the diversionary personnel the importance was given to the propaganda, which was responsible for the moral character of the combatant. In addition, the saboteurs were trained the techniques of propaganda war on the territory of the enemy.

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Authors: Alexander Fedorov

Analysis of the transformation of the image of the West in the Russian screen (1992–2015), including the ideological, social analysis, stereotypes analysis of a character analysis of identification, iconographic, plot / narrative, representative analysis, classification of content models and modifications of the genre allows us to draw the following conclusions. Content analysis of Russian films created in the post-Soviet period 1992–2015's, allows to represent their basic narrative scheme as follows: pull the West as a symbol of a better life for the Russians (emigration to the West, marriage / love relationship, criminal activity, and others in the 1990s, this story is colored diagram showing the low level of life, deprivation of Russians); the joint struggle of the Russian and Western intelligence services, military, terrorism and crime (this theme is characteristic of Russian films of the 1990s); fight the Russian special services or individual Russians with Western spies and criminals, supported by the West (the scheme became clearly manifest in the Russian cinema of the XXI century). In contrast to the period of 1946–1991 years, Russian films on the western topic in 1992–2015 fueled not only confrontational subjects (military confrontation, spying, mafia, etc.), But also (especially in 1990) history of cooperation, Russia and the West mutual assistance. But on the whole post-Soviet Russian cinema inherited traditions of Russian relations with the West: in most feature films image of the West is interpreted as a way of "Alien", "Other", often hostile, alien to Russian civilization. In view of the above it would be overly optimistic to expect that evolved over the centuries stereotyped concept of Western World image on the Russian screens may change in the near future.