Bespeka V. The US propaganda in the USSR during the Cold War (1946–1991): the American perspective.

The dissertation research, based on a wide range of sources and scientific literature, performed the scientific task of in-depth analysis of American views on the Cold War, with an emphasis on U.S. propaganda activities against the USSR in the struggle for a dominant role оn the international arena in 1946-1991. For the first time:a significant complex of English-language sources, in particular, unique archival documents, brought in by the author and that have not been used in Ukrainian historiography so far, is introduced into scientific circulation; the course of events of the Cold War is analyzed, including the complex analysis of the American historiography of propaganda support for the US policies in the confrontation with the USSR; it is offered the author’s periodization of the transformation of the image of the USSR as an enemy in the USA in the studied period, which was reflected in the American analytical discourse; the key compositional characteristics of American propaganda against the Soviet state in American historiography are identified;the American view on the USA’s information-psychological anti-Soviet campaign on the background of local wars and armed conflicts is explored comprehensively. A comprehensive analysis of the US experience of that period will create opportunities for a consistent apprehension of information and psychological operations, in the course of analogical confrontations as in cognitive terms as from a practical point of view. The author analyzed wide range of resources to develop opportunities to issue algorithms and doctrines of adequate respond to contemporary information threats from hostile propaganda and special agencies.