COOPERATION OF MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION ESTIMATES OF DOMESTIC HISTORIANS OF THE POST -SOVIET PERIOD

Abstract

The article analyses the modern historiography
of the Warsaw Pact. The author notes the differences
in estimates of the place and role of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
in the global collective security and cooperation
system. The position of researchers in this matter is largely
determined by diverse views on the bipolar confrontation of
the cold war. However, there is a notable advance in the studies
of this issue, which is largely due to the departure from the
ideological stereotypes of the Soviet epoch. In recent years
the historiography of the problem was significantly expanded
and enriched by the researches of both well known and young
Ukrainian specialists.