«GALLANT ALLIES» OR «SIMULATED FRIENDS»: THE U. S. INTERVENTION IN THE CONCEPTION OF THE PERIODICAL PRESS OF SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST

Abstract

The particular features of «White» Siberia population’s perception of American interventionists are considered in the paper on the basis of the analysis of the non-Bolshevik periodical press of Siberia and the Far East of the Civil War period. The paper attempts to reconstruct and analyze the image of American interventionists in the press, to define the degree of the influence of this image on the public opinion in Siberia and the Far East. The paper traces the evolution of the attitude of the Siberian and Far Eastern press to the American presence in the East of Russia, and concludes, first, of the gradual deterioration of the image of American soldiers in the press, and of the increasing antipathy towards them in the society. Second, the author makes a conclusion of the contradictory and ambiguous attitude of both the periodical press and the public to the American interventionists, which was reflected in a negative attitude to the American troops against the background of the positive perception of economic and humanitarian aid from the U. S.