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К.В. Федоров
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Problem of responsibility for unleashing the Second World
War in foreign historiography of 1945–1990
© K.V. Fedorov
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, 105005, Russia
The article analyses foreign historiography of the origin of the Second World War. It
reviews the most significant works by German, English, French and American historians
devoted to the history of pre-war international relations and USSR foreign policy. The
author refutes the prevalent in western literature thesis on “equal responsibility” of
Germany and the Soviet Union for outbreak of the Second World War.
Keywords:
the Second World War, historiography, falsification of history, foreign policy,
fascist aggression, policy of appeasement, the Soviet-German non-aggression pact.
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