MARRIAGE DIPLOMACY AS A NEUTRALIZING FACTOR IN THE OPPOSITION, "FRIENDS- STRANGERS" (BASED ON THE WRITING ARTIFACTS OF ANCIENT RUS)
<p align="justify">There are numerous examples of how marriage has been used to establish diplomatic relations with neighboring countries, to come to power, to oppose a common enemy etc. in the world history. The history of Ancient Rus is no exception. Marriage diplomacy in Rus was a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Marina Sokolova Publishings
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Russian Linguistic Bulletin |
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| Online Access: | http://rulb.org/wp-content/uploads/wpem/pdf_compilations/4(4)/4(4).pdf#page=26 |
| Summary: | <p align="justify">There are numerous examples of how marriage has been used to establish diplomatic relations with neighboring countries, to come to power, to oppose a common enemy etc. in the world history. The history of Ancient Rus is no exception. Marriage diplomacy in Rus was a reliable guarantee of peaceful coexistence of two previously hostile nations; it was a simple method of establishing peaceful relations with a hostile party. This article focuses on the Rus-Turkish relations against the background of a binary opposition "friends - strangers" (up to the time when it was neutralized and a new socio-psychological category of "stranger among us" has emerged) with respect to the history of Ancient Rus (see. more: 1, 51-54).</font> |
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| ISSN: | 2313-0288 2411-2968 |