In alliance with the advanced nations.: the beginning of the World War I in the liberal mirror of. "Vestnik Evropy". (1914. 1915)

This article deals with the journalism of the Russian liberal journal.Vestnik Evropy. (.Bulletin of Europe.) at the beginning of World War I. It analyzes the themes and content of the journal.s articles, the relation of the leading publicists of the journal to matters of domestic and foreign policy, and to the problems of war and peace in 1914 to the first half of 1915. It focuses on the discussion of the origins of the war, the creation of the enemy.s image, the theme of.unity. between the society and the government. It concludes that at the beginning of the war the journal.s publicists maintained the position of defensism. They hoped that a military 156 alliance with the Western democracies against monarchy would create the possibility of liberalizing the Russian political system.