Abstract
With the rise of the mass nediain the nineteenth century;educated Russians began to manifest a special fascinaticn with the attitudes of foreigners towards all things Russian. (Where but in Russia would a major newspaper offer readers a regular section devoted to "What the foreign press says about Russia?") Consequently, the extremely hostile reaction of foreign journalisn to the pograns; the anti-jewish riots which broke out in Southern Russia in April 1881, was especially painful for Russian intellectuals. Russian discanfi ture was re-enforced by the fear that these journalistic assaults presaged fioreign diplomatic initiatives directed against the Russian state.
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