Myths of Russia as a tool of socio-political persuasion

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• The policy towards Russia
• Myths about the Russians
• Relations between Russia and the World