ESOVIET MEDIEVALISTS AS THE IDEOLOGISTS: E.A. KOSMINSKY AS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF ÒNEWSÓ MAGAZINE IN 1952Ð1956s.

In 1952Ð1956 Academician E.A. Kosminsky was appointed the editor-in-chief of the ÒNewsÓ magazine, which was published in English in the USSR and addressed to a foreign audience. Thus, he became involved in the ideological struggle, the instrument of which was the Soviet periodicals. The medievalist not only wrote articles for ÒNewsÓ, but also ensured of its successful functioning. At the same time, the historian found himself involved in the vicissitudes of the editorial board's life, whose members in 1953 almost fell victim to late Stalinism political trial. While doing so the medievalistÕs articles about the problems of current foreign policy, his radio appearances addressed to a Western audience, indicate that E.A. Kosminsky organically used the obligatory Soviet political rhetoric, which was formed in the Soviet press, and fully corresponded to the propaganda tasks of Soviet journalism. Nevertheless, not all of his articles for ÒNewsÓ got into print, many of them were edited beyond recognition, while his authorship was attributed to significant ideological texts that he had not write..