About the book: 2008 / On a broad international background, the author examines the foreign policy of the USSR, taking into account the features of the Stalinist leadership system. The relationship between ideology and real politics in the intentions and actions of the Soviet leadership is shown. The issue of the secret protocol to the Soviet-German treaty of August 23, 1939, which causes heated discussions to this day, is examined in detail. The author uses a multifactorial research method to highlight a complex and dramatic period in the history of the 20th century. For historians, political scientists and a wider range of readers.