The history of the Great Patriotic War. Essays on joint history

The manual is the result of the work of Belarusian and Russian historians in the framework of a large -scale project for the preparation of the cycle of joint textbooks" Belarus and Russia: Essays on the General History to the book reveals the approaches of Russian and Belarusian historians to the prerequisites and reasons, the nature and course of World War II and the Great Patriotic War, The contribution of the peoples of the Soviet Union to a general victory. A review of the development of the policy of the USSR in the first post -war years is given. Special attention is paid to the place and roles of the Great Patriotic War in the development of the culture and art of the peoples of Belarus and Russia since the beginning of the 1940s. To the present.
The manual is intended primarily for teachers of the history of Belarus and Russia, but also is of interest to teachers of historical and other humanitarian disciplines in universities, schoolchildren and students, compatriots living abroad, can be used in the teaching of history in other CIS countries