№3-2023-02
№3-2023-02
DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2023-07-03-13-23
Arbekov A.B.
THE PERSONALITY OF THE GENERAL A.N. KUROPATKIN IN THE BRITISH PRESS DURING THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (1904-1905)
The article analyzes the process of formation of the image of the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in Manchuria General A.N. Kuropatkin in the British public during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 — 1905 on the example of periodicals of Great Britain and its colonies. The study of this problematic touches socio-cultural aspects of the perception of the «other» and the issues of military-political and strategic nature, because A.N. Kuropatkin, who held the post of Minister of War of the Russian Empire in 1898 — 1904, determined the contours of the Russian military policy, which solved the problem of defending Russian interests in Central Asia and the Far East and countering British aspirations in these regions. The construction of a certain image of General Kuropatkin in the British press followed both the propagandistic purpose of manipulating public opinion and foreign policy goal, aimed at strengthening British influence in Persia and Afghanistan. In the course of this study, materials from periodicals of Great Britain and its colonies, as well as unpublished documents from Russian and British archives were used. The study concludes that during the Russo-Japanese War the image of General A.N. Kuropatkin underwent a transformation from a «great warrior» to a «bogeyman». Such a spread in the assessments of the personality of the Russian commander on the pages of British publications retained a single semantic field, within which General A.N. Kuropatkin represented the personification of the «Russian threat to India.»
Keywords: A.N. Kuropatkin, the image of the «enemy», the British press, the Russo-Japanese War, the Great Game, the British Empire, the Russian Empire, an invasion of India.
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