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Russophobia - Propaganda in International Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Russophobia - Propaganda in International Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a
key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has
throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity
as the "Other." Propaganda is the science of convincing an audience
without appealing to reason. The West and Russia have been
juxtaposed as Western versus Eastern, European versus Asiatic,
civilized versus barbaric, modern versus backward, liberal versus
autocratic, and even good versus evil. During the Cold War,
ideological dividing lines fell naturally by casting the debate as
capitalism versus communism, democracy versus totalitarianism, and
Christianity versus atheism. After the Cold War, anti-Russian
propaganda aims to filter all political questions through the
simplistic binary stereotype of democracy versus authoritarianism,
which provides little if any heuristic value to understand the
complexities of relations. A key feature of propaganda against the
inferior "Other" is both contemptuous derision and panic-stricken
fear of the threat to civilization. Russia has therefore throughout
history been allowed to play one of two roles-either an apprentice
of Western civilization by accepting the subordinate role as the
student and political object, or a threat that must be contained or
defeated. While propaganda has the positive effect of promoting
unity and mobilizing resources toward rational and strategic
objectives, it can also have the negative effect of creating
irrational decision-making and obstructing a workable peace.
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