Malmö University Publications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Coveted, detested and unattainable? Images of the US superpower role and self-images of Russia in Russian print media discourse
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7289-6318
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).
2010 (English)In: International journal of cultural studies, ISSN 1367-8779, E-ISSN 1460-356X, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 71-89Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article explores how the image of the USA has developed in two major Russian daily newspapers, Izvestiya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, in a time period comprised of a total 20 weeks’ of study in the years of 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2009. For Russia this time span was dramatic: it moved from seemingly stable superpower in the 1980s, over the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, to the partial comeback to great power status at the beginning of the 21st century. While telling the story of how the image of the USA has evolved, the article also describes how Russian self-images have developed. The image projected of the USA was Manichean in the 1980s, whereas the most benevolent images were found in the 1990s. The examples from 2004 and 2009 reflect an assertive Russia that is back on the world stage. The USA is here again often criticized, but also — as before — comprises the scale against which Russia itself is measured.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2010. Vol. 14, no 1, p. 71-89
Keywords [en]
images, national identity, newspapers, Russia, self-images, Soviet Union, United States
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-1769DOI: 10.1177/1367877910384185ISI: 000288872400005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-78651084017Local ID: 11733OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-1769DiVA, id: diva2:1398501
Available from: 2020-02-27 Created: 2020-02-27 Last updated: 2024-02-06Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Petersson, BoPersson, Emil

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Petersson, BoPersson, Emil
By organisation
Department of Global Political Studies (GPS)
In the same journal
International journal of cultural studies
Social Sciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 35 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf