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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">documentation</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">История и архивы</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>History and Archives</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2658-6541</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.28995/2658-6541-2026-8-2-89-102</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">documentation-589</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ИСТОРИОГРАФИЯ, ИСТОЧНИКОВЕДЕНИЕ И МЕТОДЫ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>HISTORIOGRAPHY, SOURCE STUDY AND METHODS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Британская пресса о подготовке миссии У. Ренсимена в Чехословакию (июль–август 1938 г.)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>The British press on the preparation of W. Runciman’s mission to Czechoslovakia (July–August 1938)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0994-186X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мирзоян</surname><given-names>А. Г.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Mirzoyan</surname><given-names>A. G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Александр Г. Мирзоян, аспирант</p><p>125047, Москва, Миусская пл., д. 6, стр. 6</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Aleksandr G. Mirzoyan, postgraduate</p><p>6-6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, Russia, 125047</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">RussianYukon@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Российский государственный гуманитарный университет</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Russian State University for the Humanities</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>13</day><month>06</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>89</fpage><lpage>102</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Мирзоян А.Г., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Мирзоян А.Г.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Mirzoyan A.G.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://documentation.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/589">https://documentation.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/589</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье анализируются первые статьи в британской периодической печати, посвященные миссии Ренсимена – одной из попыток Великобритании разрешить судето-немецкий конфликт дипломатическим путем. Хронологически исследование ограничено периодом с 26 июля по 3 августа 1938 г.: именно к этому времени относятся первые упоминания о миссии в британских газетах. Интерпретации британской дипломатической инициативы в прессе отличались некоторой неоднородностью. Рассмотрены крупнейшие и наиболее влиятельные издания Британской империи того времени: Daily Express, Daily Herald и News Chronicle, имевшие консервативную, либеральную и лейбористскую направленности соответственно. Дополнительно в статье анализируются публикации The Daily Worker и Action, что дает возможность проследить позиции представителей крайнего спектра британской политики: Коммунистической партии Великобритании и Союза фашистов. Важно отметить, что в 1930-е гг. периодическая печать являлась одним из ключевых каналов формирования общественного мнения и восприятия международных событий, по уровню влияния уступая, пожалуй, только радиовещанию. Таким образом, именно периодические издания оказывали значительное влияние на формирование массовых представлений о внешнеполитических кризисах, что обусловливает необходимость их анализа в рамках настоящего исследования.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The paper analyses the first articles in the British press devoted to the Runciman Mission, one of Britain’s attempts to resolve the Sudeten German conflict through  diplomatic  means.  Chronologically,  the  study is limited to the period from the 26th of July to the 3rd of August, 1938: this is when the first mentions of the mission appeared in the British newspapers. The interpretations of the British diplomatic initiative in the press varied. The largest and most influential media sources of the British Empire of that time are examined: the Daily Express, the Daily Herald and the News Chronicle, which were conservative, liberal and labour-oriented, respectively. In addition, the article analyses the publications in The Daily Worker and Action, which makes it possible to trace the viewpoint of the representatives of the extreme spectrum of British politics: the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Union of Fascists. It is important to note that in the 1930s, the periodical press was one of the key channels for shaping public opinion and perceiving international events, by the level of influence falling short to radio broadcasting only. Thus, it was the periodicals that had a significant impact on the formation of mass perceptions of foreign policy crises, which necessitates their analysis within the context of this research.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>пресса</kwd><kwd>Чехословакия</kwd><kwd>Великобритания</kwd><kwd>миссия Ренсимена</kwd><kwd>Судетская область</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>press</kwd><kwd>Czechoslovakia</kwd><kwd>Great Britain</kwd><kwd>Runciman Mission</kwd><kwd>Sudetenland</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Волков 1990 – Волков В.К. Мюнхен: и сговор, и капитуляция // 1939 год: Уроки истории. М.: Мысль, 1990. С. 108–145.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Andrews, G., Fishman, N. and Morgan, K., eds. 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