IMAGE OF RUSSIANS AND THE SOVIET RUSSIA OF THE GERMAN PUBLIC IN WEIMAR REPUBLIC

The article is devoted to the problem of formation and change of an image of other people and the country in public opinion on the example of the attitude of the Germans of the Weimar Republic to the Russians and the Soviet Russia. The author investigates the questions of influence of the periodicals, publicism on the emergence of new idea by Germans of Russians after the World War I. The reasons of transformation of an image of new Russia in consciousness of the ordinary Germans are generalized in this article.