Беларуская ССР на міжнароднай арэне (1944 - 1990 гг.)

Abstract

The article "The Belarusian SSR in the International Arena (1945—1990)" explores the history of international political activity of the Belarusian SSR in 1944—1990. The stages of this activity are signed out and characterized. The article gives the causes for the constitutional changes in the USSR in 1944 when the union republics regained the right to participate in international relations. The reasons for only Ukraine and Belarus becoming the founding members of the UN are shown.The 45-year-long period of the international activity of the BSSR is divided into 3 stages: 1) 1944—1953 — the Stalin stage; 2) 1954—1985 — period of broadening and activization of international relations; 3) 1985—1991 — he period of Gorbachev reformation, "sovereignization" of the union republics and the dissolution of the USSR. The main directions of the activity of the BSSR in the international arena are characterized: participation in the UN activity and its agencies and bilateral relations with foreign states in political, economic and cultural fields. The article analyses the constitutional and legal mechanism of external political and diplomatic activity of the Soviet Union republics. The conclusion is made that the special international legal status of the BSSR prevented it from participating on equal footing in international relations and politics.