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Reception of antiquity in the Cold war period (1946–1953)
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В статье представлен пример рецепции античности в политической риторике холодной войны на ее раннем этапе 19461953 гг. Политическая обстановка в США (политика маккартизма и антикоммунистическая истерия в обществе) и в СССР (борьба снизкопоклонством и новые веяния внешней политики послевоенного мира) заставила историков-антиковедов обратиться к античному наследию с целью актуализации и обоснования возникшего противостояния двух систем. Так, Пелопоннесская война между Афинами и Спартой, описанная Фукидидом, стала образом, раскрывающим суть и возможные параллели с ситуацией холодной войны между СССР и США. Обоснование таких сопоставлений и дискуссия вокруг их использования развернулись одновременно на страницах двух авторитетных журналов Classical Journal в США и Вестника древней истории в СССР. Схожая направленность таких дискуссий дает возможность говорить о сложившейся на раннем этапе холодной войны особой риторики, в которой была отражена античная история.
The article is devoted to a case of reception of antiquity in political rhetoric of the early cold war (19461953). Political situation in the USA (anti-communism and McCarthy Era) and in the USSR (ideological campaigns of late Stalinism) pressed ancient historians much, so they used ancient history for actualization and substantiation of their position in ideological conflict. Thucydides description of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta became a specific ancient Greek mirror of the real situation in international affairs of the mid-20th c. Two scientific journals, Classical Journal in the USA and Vestnik drevnei istorii (VDI) in the USSR became the panel of political discussion on the historical background. The argumentation was close in both cases, so we may speak about specific political apology on the base of ancient history, which took place in the early cold war period.
Title: Reception of antiquity in the Cold war period (1946–1953)
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В статье представлен пример рецепции античности в политической риторике холодной войны на ее раннем этапе 19461953 гг.
Политическая обстановка в США (политика маккартизма и антикоммунистическая истерия в обществе) и в СССР (борьба снизкопоклонством и новые веяния внешней политики послевоенного мира) заставила историков-антиковедов обратиться к античному наследию с целью актуализации и обоснования возникшего противостояния двух систем.
Так, Пелопоннесская война между Афинами и Спартой, описанная Фукидидом, стала образом, раскрывающим суть и возможные параллели с ситуацией холодной войны между СССР и США.
Обоснование таких сопоставлений и дискуссия вокруг их использования развернулись одновременно на страницах двух авторитетных журналов Classical Journal в США и Вестника древней истории в СССР.
Схожая направленность таких дискуссий дает возможность говорить о сложившейся на раннем этапе холодной войны особой риторики, в которой была отражена античная история.
The article is devoted to a case of reception of antiquity in political rhetoric of the early cold war (19461953).
Political situation in the USA (anti-communism and McCarthy Era) and in the USSR (ideological campaigns of late Stalinism) pressed ancient historians much, so they used ancient history for actualization and substantiation of their position in ideological conflict.
Thucydides description of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta became a specific ancient Greek mirror of the real situation in international affairs of the mid-20th c.
Two scientific journals, Classical Journal in the USA and Vestnik drevnei istorii (VDI) in the USSR became the panel of political discussion on the historical background.
The argumentation was close in both cases, so we may speak about specific political apology on the base of ancient history, which took place in the early cold war period.
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