Myths of Russia as a tool of socio-political persuasion

Аннотация

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.