WORLD WAR II: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF THE 1919-1941 DECISIVE EVENTS.

Autor: Svetlov, Victor A., Sidorov, Nikolay M., Egorov, Anatoly G.
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Zdroj: Annals of the University of Craiova. History / Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Istorie; 2018, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p87-106, 20p
Abstrakt: The issue of the reasons and the results of the Second World War (WWII) has again become a prioritized policy theme especially in those European countries that were formerly influenced by the Soviet Union. There is a notable trend in equaling the policy of the USSR with the one of Nazi Germany in the pre-war period and admission that the Soviet Union was one of the main states responsible for initiation of WWII. Historiography of WWII, both Russian and foreign, conclusively prove failing circumstances and propagandistic nature of the mentioned trend. The only thing lacking in the modern historical research is a universal conceptual and mathematic paradigm for interpretation of the collected facts. The majority of historians prefer keeping on basing on the common sense and personal preferences. Particularly, we have met no scientific paper where the issue of the WWII initiation would be considered from the strategic (game-theoretic) point of view. For this reason exactly this kind of analysis was chosen as the main objective of this paper. The use of the main admissions of the unified conflict theory and mathematical apparatus of the metagame theory provided an opportunity to prove that the Treaty of Versailles had become the generator of all the subsequent tragic events that caused WWII. Moreover, the European states - the United Kingdom, France and Poland had done everything to prevent formation of the anti-Hitler coalition and to avoid the USSR's becoming its full-fledged member. That is why these are exact states, but not the USSR, that bear the main political responsibility for initiation of WWII. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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