Russia electrification plan in the USA and UK press assessment of the 1920-1929

Sergey Olegovich Buranok

doi:10.17816/snv201871208

Abstract

The following paper deals with the research of the place and value of Russia electrification plan and its reflection in Great Britain and the USA public opinion. The study of information campaign around Russia electrification plan has its specifics and value: first, it gives a chance to establish new, unknown facts; secondly, to determine the level of knowledge of Another (in this case, American) society about the Soviet power; thirdly, to understand what place information about Russia electrification plan took in the USA and Great Britain in the system of the USSR image creation, the image of the Soviet power revolution. This paper uses materials of the USA and Great Britain press about Russia electrification plan. Besides, the author analyzes the image of the Soviet power in the American and British society. The information campaign around Russia electrification plan could report to the world about the Soviet economy achievements as well as promote preparation (in the information plan) to the following large project - industrialization. Articles, reports, notes on Russia electrification plan helped to change the attitude towards Russia / the USSR in the USA and Great Britain and helped to correct the image of the USSR in the world.

Highlights

The paper explores the influence of pedagogical concept of «free education» on the formation of the world view of adolescents from the noble-intelligent families of Russia at the end of the XIX – beginning of the XX century
Attention is drawn to the fact that this pedagogical setup could be fully realized only in elite educational institutions
It is concluded that the «new ideological parents» and «advanced schools» carried out a single educational approach, focused on formation of a special intelligentsia opposition, accepting, or even supporting, all means in the struggle of «citizens» for «freedom»

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Introduction

ПЛАН ГОЭЛРО В ОЦЕНКЕ ПРЕССЫ США И ВЕЛИКОБРИТАНИИ 1920–1929 ГОДОВ В данной статье предпринято исследование того, какое место и значение занимал план электрификации России и его реализация в общественном мнении Великобритании и США. План ГОЭЛРО в оценке прессы США и Великобритании 1920–1929 годов 07.00.00 – исторические науки и археология каких внутри- и внешнеполитических проблем образ советской энергосистемы актуализировался в американском обществе 1920–1929 гг.

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