ON THE PECULIARITIES OF THE PERCEPTION OF SOMEPROBLEMS OF SOVIET HISTORY ENGLISH RESEARCHERS

Abstract

The article attempts, on the basis of a number of debatable issues of Soviet history, to partially generalize the views of English-speaking historians on this chronological stage. The author comes to the conclusion that regarding all the problems considered in the article in English-language historiography, there are two main approaches – traditionalist, formed during the Cold War and meeting the needs of Western ideology regarding the USSR in those years, and revisionist, representatives who insist on revising those schemes, and as a rule, they try to be more objective in assessing a number of events.