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Lausanne Peace Treaty did not solve contradictions between Great Britain and Turkey. Political relations between those two countries remained strained. The Kemalists could not forget that London had been the main supporter of Greece during the Liberation War (Kurtuluş Savaşı). On the other hand, the British thought Turkey to be a seasonal state and were alarmed when Kemalists had established a close link with the Soviet Russia. However, the most serious problem was a dispute over the possession of the vilayet of Mosul. The territory of Mosul was held by Turkey until the First World War. In 1918 it was occupied by Britain. In 1920 it was assigned to Iraq, which had become a British mandate. However Kemalists refused to relinquish their claims to the territory of Mosul, which was specified in the National Pact (Misakı Millı) as Turkish one. For that reason the question of Mosul remained in a state of deadlock, even after the Lausanne Treaty had been signed. Bilateral negotiations between Great Britain and Turkey did not solve the problem, and the matter was referred to the League of Nations. In December 1925 the Council of the League of Nations decided that the vilayet of Mosul was an integraf part of Iraq. Finally the dispute over that territory ended in June 1926, when the border treaty between Iraq and Turkey was signed. However the case of Mosul cast a shadow over relations between Angora and London at least until 1929.

Lausanne Peace Treaty did not solve contradictions between Great Britain and Turkey. Political relations between those two countries remained strained. The Kemalists could not forget that London had been the main supporter of Greece during the Liberation War (Kurtuluş Savaşı). On the other hand, the British thought Turkey to be a seasonal state and were alarmed when Kemalists had established a close link with the Soviet Russia. However, the most serious problem was a dispute over the possession of the vilayet of Mosul. The territory of Mosul was held by Turkey until the First World War. In 1918 it was occupied by Britain. In 1920 it was assigned to Iraq, which had become a British mandate. However Kemalists refused to relinquish their claims to the territory of Mosul, which was specified in the National Pact (Misakı Millı) as Turkish one. For that reason the question of Mosul remained in a state of deadlock, even after the Lausanne Treaty had been signed. Bilateral negotiations between Great Britain and Turkey did not solve the problem, and the matter was referred to the League of Nations. In December 1925 the Council of the League of Nations decided that the vilayet of Mosul was an integraf part of Iraq. Finally the dispute over that territory ended in June 1926, when the border treaty between Iraq and Turkey was signed. However the case of Mosul cast a shadow over relations between Angora and London at least until 1929.

This paper provides a critical review of the monograph Great Britain and Issues of Integration, Security, and Decolonisation in the Second Half of the 1940s — Early 1960s, published by Tomsk University Press in 2017. The book analyses the main changes in the foreign policy of the British Governments after World War II in the context of issues of European integration, new aspects of security, and the appearance of immigration policy. The Cold War transformed the traditional priorities of British foreign policy from the defence of the colonial empire to a "special relationship" with the United States of America and then to the integration policy with European countries. At the same time, there were some crises in the UK, the 1956 Suez Crisis being the most well-known of them. In the book reviewed, the author tries to put forward the study of different aspects of British foreign policy of the period both by means of developing the traditional system of approaches, and by introducing new sources which demonstrate the evolution of these different interconnected processes. The review considers some of the results of this approach. ; Данная работа посвящена критическому обзору монографии «Великобритания и проблемы интеграции, безопасности и деколонизации во второй половине 1940-х — начале 1960-х гг.», опубликованной издательством Томского государственного университета в 2017 г. В работе рассматриваются главные изменения во внешней политике британских правительств после Второй мировой войны в контексте проблем европейской интеграции, новых аспектов безопасности и появления миграционной политики. Холодная война трансформировала традиционные приоритеты британской внешней политики от защиты колониальной империи к «особым отношениям» с Соединенными Штатами Америки, а затем к политике интеграции с европейскими странами. Одновременно происходил ряд кризисов внутри Соединенного Королевства. Суэцкий кризис 1956 г. — самый известный среди них. В рецензируемой книге автор пытается продвинуть вперед изучение различных аспектов британской внешней политики этого периода, как через развитие традиционной системы взглядов, так и включая в исследовательскую повестку новые оригинальные источники, показывающие эволюцию этих различных, но взаимосвязанных процессов. Некоторые из результатов такого подхода исследуются в рецензии.

Th e subject of the study is the image of the West as an ally as it was shaped by the Soviet media during the Great Patriotic War. For Soviet pro-paganda, the periodical press was very important because it contributed to the formation of public perceptions of both the outside world and the situation in the country. During the war, the main goal of newspapers was to mobilize the masses. Scientifi c works on similar problems were, as a rule, of an overview char-acter which did not consider the dynamics and numerous nuances in relations with the allies throughout the entire period of the Great Patriotic War, as well as the mechanisms of Soviet propaganda in the coverage of the foreign policy. An analysis of an extensive set of sources, including publications of the central periodical press (Pravda, Izvestiya, Krasnaya zvezda), allows a comprehensive study of the formation and evolution of the image of the West as an ally of the anti-Hitler coalition in the Soviet press in 1941–1945. All the activities of the media were under the control of the Directorate of Propaganda and Agitation of the Communist Party's Central Committee, and the responsibility for it was vested in the Press Department. As a result, the information conveyed to the Soviet population was selected and ideologically verifi ed. Th is certainly applied to material about the United States and Great Britain. Information about the ac-tivities and assistance of the allies was primarily intended to convince the Soviet reader that the country had not been left alone with the enemy. At the same time, the Soviet press avoided an overly enthusiastic tone toward yesterday's ideologi-cal adversaries. Th e evolution of the image of the allies within the anti-Hitler coalition in the central periodical press of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic war went through several stages and depended largely on the situation on the Soviet-German front.