Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin, 2011, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 6–16
© Davidov M. E., 2011
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Crisis of the western methodology in studying of «cold war» and the sociological approach

Davidov M. E. 1 (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)
1 Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University
Abstract: 

In the paper the author considers modern approaches to studying of «cold war» developed in the West. The author researches the crisis phenomena in the methodology, outlined in the western historiography of «cold war» and the sociological approach as a possible variant of an output from methodological deadlock

Keywords: 

«cold war»; the theory of the international attitudes; a historiography; methodological approaches

For citation:
Davidov M. E. Crisis of the western methodology in studying of «cold war» and the sociological approach . Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin, 2011, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 6–16.
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Date of the publication 27.06.2011