ABSTRACT
The view of Russian-American relations from a constructivist perspective the construction of the Other's image in public opinion using several key factors, including a cultural set of references and the political and social agenda of own society that serves as a filter for the information provided by the Other society. Public opinion is analyzed based on newspaper and magazine articles; nineteenth-century periodicals, researcher far from the major depositories. In antebellum America, as well as in Russia on the eve of emancipation of serfs, the existence of social institutes of forced labor and personal bondage, slavery and serfdom, brought the two countries even closer to each other. The Southern press continued to use the existence of serfdom as an argument for the continuation of slavery until very of the Emancipation. On February 19, 1861, Russian Emperor Alexander II abolished serfdom. The North American Review in January 1864 issue published a review of the book.
