Moscow, Nauka Publishing House. 1976. 302 pp. The print run is 6,300. Price 1 rub. 43 kopecks. The collective monograph, prepared by the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the USSR Academy of Sciences together with the Soviet Committee for European Security and Co-operation1 , is devoted to the events of recent years that are so significant for European history. During these years, the continent took a radical turn from the post-war tension that prevailed throughout the entire period, which often resulted in acute crisis situations, to the establishment of the principles of peaceful coexistence and, on their basis, to the defusing of international tension. The authors trace the process of forming the prerequisites for the beginning of the restructuring of international relations in Europe, the preparation and holding of the Pan-European Conference on Security and Cooperation, analyze its huge positive results, their significance not only for Europe, but also for other countries. for the whole world. The paper convincingly shows that the changes on the continent, which received a tangible impetus thanks to the Helsinki Meeting, were made possible as a result of the Leninist foreign policy of the Soviet Union, the agreed course of the countries of the socialist community. According to the paper, "the policy of strengthening European security and cooperation pursued by the socialist countries, based on a broad generalization of past experience, as well as modern realities, is aimed at creating a system of international relations in which there would never be any more wars in Europe, and relations between all states would be built on the principles of peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation." cooperation" (p. 32). The monograph emphasizes that the process of defusing tension is based on a further change in the balance of forces in favor of socialism. A number of leading Western figures, realizing the futility of the cold war, showed political re ... Read more