Российская историография о роли США в развязывании "Холодной войны"

Abstract

The article explores the problems of the study of causes and the beginning of "the Cold War" in Russian historiography. The author sets himself a rask to analyze some questions concerning the role of the USA in emergence of "the Cold War" on the materials of Russian literature. The article falls into 2 parts. First, the author considers the evolution of the studies of the history of "the Cold War" period in the Soviet Union and, later, in Russia. Both the achievements and the drawbacks, as well as the problems of the research of the period are shown here. Next, the author reviews the studies carried out in Russia which are devoted to the causes and beginning of "the Cold War". Whereas in Soviet times the approach was comparatively uniform with all authors laying the blame for the tough confrontation on the USA and the famous 1946 Churchill speech in Fulton, now there is a range of opinions as to that. Some of them are cited in the article. The author further makes an attempt to analyze various points of view of Russian scholars on the causes for the USA to have entered of "the Cold War". The article demonstrates that now it is necessary to write a joint history of post-war international relations, to reveal the causes and actions which plunged the world into the Cold War. Now, however, the fact that Russian historiography has become an unalienable part of the world historical science and makes its own contribution to the study of this unique period of the world history is very encouraging.