World War Two in Modern Historiography and Public
Consciousness

A. O. Chubar’yan*

Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: dir@igh.ru

Received November 9, 2015

Abstract—Ever since the end of WWII and the Great Patriotic War 70 years ago, debates on this epoch-making
event in world history have never ceased. They became particularly acute after the disintegration of the Soviet
Union and the Warsaw Pact. Last year, a new burst of discussions was caused by the 70th anniversary of the
Victory. The author of this scientific paper, which was heard at a meeting of the RAS Presidium, highlights
important points of the discussions and the shift of the focus of historical studies from military actions toward
a wide panorama of life activities of society and individuals in the conditions of the war and its reflection in
mass consciousness.

Keywords: World War Two, Great Patriotic War, public consciousness, sources and causes of the war, influence
of the war on the development of society.

DOI: 10.1134/S1019331616030011

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