Georgi Fedotov and Pax Atlantica: the Ideological Construction of the Cold War Cover Image

Георги Федотов и Pax Atlantica: идеологическото конструиране на Студената война
Georgi Fedotov and Pax Atlantica: the Ideological Construction of the Cold War

Author(s): Darina Grigorova
Subject(s): History, Special Historiographies:, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Cold-War History
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: Cold War; totalitarianism; totalitarian ideology; stalinism; fascism; communo-fascism; Pax Atlantica; Georgi Fedotov; Nikolai Berdyaev
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the main Cold War ideologemes constructed in the Russian émigré press of the 1930s, before, during and immediately after World War II. The main source is the journalism of Georgy Fedotov in a comparative analysis with that of Nikolai Berdyaev. The article traces the construction of Fedotov's concept of Pax Atlantica as an ideological ideal and counterpoint to the Soviet Union. Fedotov's main ideologem is the alignment of fascism and national socialism with Stalinism in a hybrid "communofascism" in order to blur the boundaries between defeated and victorious after the war and leave the only victor, the Atlanticist world.

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