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Russian historiography
of this problem is represented by the works of Yu.G. 
Barsegov, A.A. Kurtov, S.V. Lurie, A.A. Svarants, and others. The works dedicated to the problem 
of the "image of the enemy" allow stating that, in general, this topic is part of a broader historical-
psychological and historical-sociological problem of "us/them", "friend/foe" than the Armenian 
question. Its various aspects are reflected in the interesting historical and psychological studies of 
A.S. Senyavskaya. 
The Russian science may distinguish several approaches to understanding the image of the 
enemy in international relations. There has been a tradition of analyzing ideas about the enemy as 
an element of the archaic picture of the world within the dichotomy "us/them" (B.F. Porshnev, T.V. 
Evgenia, I.N. Ionov). Other researchers are characterized by a functional approach, in which the 
forms of using the image of the enemy are considered as a means of exercising political power 
(S.V. Chugrov, I.L. Morozov), and also explores its role in the formation of social identity (L.D. 
Gudkov). A number of Russian scientists paid considerable attention to the conscious nature of 
creating the image of the enemy (V. Avchenko, G. Grachev, I. Melnik). 

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The need to involve interdisciplinary historiographic analysis to study the formation of the 
image of the enemy in the Anglo-American society led the author of the monograph to refer to the 
works of such researchers as V.S. Ageev, G.M. Andreev, G.G. Diligensky, L. P. Nazaretyan, 
B.Shestopal, V.A. Yadov, Yu.A. Sherkovin, who are characterized by the tradition of analyzing 
ideas about the enemy from the point of view of its role in the process of social identification of the 
individual. This approach is echoed by the works of conflictologists who study the image of the 
enemy within the framework of the problematic of group consciousness (A.Yu. Melville, A.G. 
Zdravomyslov). Works on ethnology and ethnopsychology are also important for us, in which the 
negative attitude towards the “foe” group is studied within the framework of the problems of 
ethnocentrism (the works by L.M. Drobizheva, V.A. Tishkov, T.G. Stefanenko, M.A. 
Mnatsakanyan, V.F. Petrenko, A.V. Mitina, S. Mints, G.V. Ktsoeva and others), as well as those in 
which the image of the enemy is depicted through the concept of an ethnic stereotype (the works by 
V.F. Petrenko, V. Mitina, K.V. Berdnikov, O.G. Kravtsova, V.S. Osipova, T.G. Stefanenko, etc.).