Culture and Cold War as a problem of spy novel.
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2017
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Університет імені Альфреда Нобеля
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The article is devoted to the studying of the phenomenon of Cold War in its correlation to
the introduction of a new hero in literature, namely in a spy novel. Social and cultural background
that determined the formation of a patriotic and spy novel with its hero-myth is under consideration.
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Cold War is an ideological resistance between the former wartime Allied victors in the
second half of the 1940sthat was reasoned by after-war political situation. Churchill’s
speech in his being not the Prime Minister but a private citizen in Fulton (USA, State
of Missouri) on 5 March 1946 with the view of enhancing English and American alliance and
thus building the wall between West and the Soviet Union is under consideration: «Neither the
sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organisation will be gained without
what I have called the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples. This means a special
relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States». He saw the
near future for English speaking countries with «common citizenship» [1]. Having stated these
ideas Churchill started to attack Stalin’s politics: «A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately
lighted by the Allied victory. Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international
organisation intends to do in the immediate future … From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the
Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals
of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest,
Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in
what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet
influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow» [1].
Ключові слова
�old War, spy / intelligent operative, spy novel, patriotic and spy novel, hero�myth, mass culture, mass literature.