and, russophobia is a very old word.

i first ran across it in a history textbook that i nabbed from my dead step grandfather's shelf, it was written in the 30s or 40s, to describe nineteenth century british tory policy under disraeli.

the idea can be traced at least as far back as thomas paine, who realized that the british empire would collapse if it did not have a russian bogeyman to justify it's waste of resources on militarism. but, the fear of russian expansion goes back to genghis khan and even atilla the hun.

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/ljb1.html