Russian and Ottoman Newspapers in the War of 1877–1878
Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat
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The proliferation of popular newspapers during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 transformed the boundaries of public debate in Russia and brought the people into close contact with each other as well as with the outer world. Printing and the press had a parallel effect on the fin-de-siècle Ottoman public sphere. Newspapers of the Sublime Porte utilized defeats against Russia to juxtapose – if not depose – the Sultan’s cult as the sole symbol of unity with a nationalist one. “Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat” is a comparative study of the two major newspapers – Golos and Basiret – during this period. I examine the major commonalities between these papers: such as perceived images of the enemy, the war’s aims and purposes, as well as the behavior of the troops portrayed by the war correspondents. My primary purpose is to shed light on the Turkish popular press, which weighed in on the issues of nationalism, defeat and political campaigning just as its Russian counterparts did. Ultimately, this article argues that the emergence of a critically debating public sphere in Russia and Turkey demonstrates how both empires experienced modernity in the sense that most Europeans understood it.
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In 1863, Kraevskii’s primary concern was making profit in this business, which distinguished Golos from more polemical contemporaries. For biographical information, see Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’, 25 vols. (St. Petersburg: Tip. upravleniia udelov, 1903), 9: 400–404.
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Louise McReynolds, The News Under Russia’s Old Regime (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991); Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read: (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985); and Mark D. Steinberg, Moral Communities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
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Ilhan Yerlikaya, XIX. Yuzyil Osmanli Siyasi Hayatinda Basiret Gazetesi (Van: 100. Yil Universitesi, 1994), 6.
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Kemal Karpat, The Politicization of Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 120.
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Cengiz Kirli, “Kahvehaneler ve Hafiyeler: 19. Yuzyil Ortalarinda Osmanli’da Sosyal Kontrol,” in Tanzimat: Degisim Surecinde Osmanli Imparatorlugu, ed. Halil Inalcik and Mehmed Seyitdanlioglu (Ankara: Phoenix, 2006), 425–443.
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Russian and Ottoman Newspapers in the War of 1877–1878
Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat
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The proliferation of popular newspapers during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 transformed the boundaries of public debate in Russia and brought the people into close contact with each other as well as with the outer world. Printing and the press had a parallel effect on the fin-de-siècle Ottoman public sphere. Newspapers of the Sublime Porte utilized defeats against Russia to juxtapose – if not depose – the Sultan’s cult as the sole symbol of unity with a nationalist one. “Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat” is a comparative study of the two major newspapers – Golos and Basiret – during this period. I examine the major commonalities between these papers: such as perceived images of the enemy, the war’s aims and purposes, as well as the behavior of the troops portrayed by the war correspondents. My primary purpose is to shed light on the Turkish popular press, which weighed in on the issues of nationalism, defeat and political campaigning just as its Russian counterparts did. Ultimately, this article argues that the emergence of a critically debating public sphere in Russia and Turkey demonstrates how both empires experienced modernity in the sense that most Europeans understood it.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 775 | 180 | 66 |
| Full Text Views | 310 | 12 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 152 | 19 | 3 |