Враги России. Образы и риторики вражды в русской журнальной сатире Первой мировой войны

The goal of the authors of the book is to recreate the process of formation, transformation and blurring of satirical images of the enemy and rhetoric of enmity in Russian magazine satire of the World War I era, which formed and reflected the ideas of a significant part of Russian society. "Enemy from the West" and "Enemy from the East" - this dual existence of enemy images and the duality of their critical interpretations are analyzed by the authors on the example of specific precedents of wartime phobias in the satirical press, this mirror of public sentiments and - at the same time - behind the looking glass of political "kitchen" that produced media "products" of hostility. The work reveals for the reader the world of Russian magazine satire, in which she lived (and survived) between two modalities - a patriotic response to the aggression of the enemy and a critical reflection on Russia's own problems in the conditions of the most severe military-political, social, economic, cultural crisis generated by the policies of world powers and actions of their own power. The book clearly shows that for historians, specialists in the field of political culture, cultural anthropology and historical psychology, the study of the reaction of the human community to the Great War is an acute research challenge. In this sense, satire - as a way for society to appropriate the experience of war - is able to provide the researcher with a kind of key (perhaps a master key!) To penetrate the cruel everyday life of the psychohistory of war. Acquaintance with the vivid and tragic "repertoire" of images of the "other", "foreign", "enemy" created during the First World War by domestic satirical journalists gives reason to change the proverb and say: tell me what you are laughing at, and I will say , what is hurting you. It is not surprising that the notorious problem of identity as applied to the Russian society during the war and the self-reflection that became aggravated in it - against the backdrop of crisis phenomena and the collapse of former sociocultural ties - was reflected in the mirrors of satirical journalism with the ruthlessness of the grotesque, attracting the attention of historians and giving rise to topical reflections.