The Death of Alexander the Great

Rumour and Propaganda

Bibliographic Data

ID9664638
AuthorsA B Bosworth (The University of Western Australia, corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume21
Issue1
Pages112-136
Publication date1971-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009838800028846
OpenAlexW2015124295
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited4

Propaganda and history are often inseparable. Most governments are in a position to control the dissemination of evidence, and if an event is embarrassing or damaging, the relevant evidence is certain to be distorted or withheld. Moreover the writers of history, however innocent their motives, cannot disregard the official apologia of their rulers. One notes with interest that the learned authors of the official Soviet history of the world portray the invasion of eastern Poland on 17 September 1939 as a crusade of liberation. Of course it might be true that the people liberated by the Red Army were glad to be rid of ‘the arbitrary despotism of the Polish Pans’ and that in the subsequent elections there was absolute freedom of choice and overwhelming support for union with the Ukraine, but the fact remains that it was impossible for membersof the Moscow Academy to contradict their government's justification of the invasion

Event (particle physics · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Soviet union · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy

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