Hystory

The article deals with the history of the Battle of Kursk in 1943 in the Great Patriotic War, reflected in the memoirs of German, British, American and Soviet participants of the war, politicians and historians. Military operations after the collapse of the armies of the Wehrmacht and its European allies on the Volga at the beginning of 1943 in the summer of this year acquired a new character for both belligerents.

The article is devoted to various aspects of representation in the mass media of the Battle of Warsaw - the key event of the Soviet-Polish war of 1920. Emphasis is placed on the strategies of mythologization and sacralization of the Battle of Warsaw in Polish historical and political discourse. The main sources of the research were the media, as well as statements by figures significant for Polish historical and political discourse.

(TO THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOSCOW BATTLE IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941-1945)

The aim of this work is to study Soviet and American film policy at the initial stage of the «Cold War». The source base consists of original, first introduced into academic circulation or little-known archival data — paperwork, organizational and administrative documentation, as well as audiovisual materials, media texts — motion pictures. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was composed of comparative-historical, historical-genetic and historical-typological methods, the principles of historicism, scientific objectivity.

The article deals with a little-studied aspect of the relationship between Medieval and Renaissanceworldviews, which coexisted in the XIV‑XVI centuries in the Christian West. Medieval consciousness was based on the idea of the "senility of the world" and its near death, the moral, intellectual and physical degradation of mankind. Such idea was contrary to anthropology and historical optimism of humanists.

On the materials of official documents ("Personal file" of a student of the Vladimir state pedagogical Institute V.V. Erofeev — a future famous writer), behavioural strategies of the University intelligentsia of the "thaw" period are studied. The author proves that this thematic documentary complex is a multi- layered text of culture that arose at the intersection of various ideological and discursive strategies of historical, cultural and socio-political contexts.

The article comprehends the modern methodology of studying the theatrical process, based on the theoretical concepts of "theatrical text", "theatrical discourse", theatrical communication, etc. The specific material shows the effectiveness of using current methodological tools for analyzing the historical theatrical process.

Key words: culture text, theatrical text, theatre discourse, aesthetic reception, history on the stage, the audience.