TY - JOUR AU - Porshneva, Olga PY - 2014/04/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Image of the German enemy as perceived by Russian army soldiers during world war I JF - Quaestio Rossica JA - QR VL - 0 IS - 1 SE - Problema voluminis DO - 10.15826/qr.2014.1.024 UR - https://qr.urfu.ru/ojs/index.php/qr/article/view/024 SP - 79 - 94 AB - <p>The article analyses the sociocultural context and factors of the initial shaping and further evolution of the image of a German as perceived by Russian army soldiers during World War I (1914 – February 1917). The article reveals the specific role and characteristics of the official propaganda used to create the image of the German enemy and its reflection within a soldier’s perception. The author examines verbal and nonverbal symbolic representations of the image of a German in a soldier’s consciousness and the correlation between the image of a German, the enemy from outside and the “inner German”. The author’s interpretation of published and unpublished sources both of official and personal nature (materials from the police department, statistics, folklore, memoires, letters, diaries, periodicals) is underpinned by the conceptual techniques of imagology and sociocultural history. The author reveals the key characteristics and the evolutionary development of the image of the German enemy in popular perceptions of Russian army soldiers between 1914–1917.</p> ER -