MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT: MAIN DIRECTIONS OF STUDYING IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
The formation and development of a modern historiographical tradition of Germany in relation to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is considered in the article. The wide range of the works, allowing to define general approaches and problem positioning in the German historical science as a whole is analyzed. The main debatable questions are put into perspective. Three main directions of interpretation of the Soviet policy by historical science of Germany at the making of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact are determined, which assign a prime part to either defensive, or expansionist justification of foreign policy the USSR, or combine the two previous approaches. Refs 29.