FALSIFICATION OF THE PRE-HISTORY OF THE BALTIC STATES IN THE HISTORICAL LITERATURE
The article shows the main trends of modern historiography of a pre-war history of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The main topics of research are: formation and early years of the Baltic states in 1918-1920.; policy of the Baltic regimes towards the White movement; the reasons, contents and after-effects of the pro-fascist coups of the 1930s.; the Baltic states entry into the Soviet Union; repression of 1940-1941. According to the dominated in the Western historiography point of view, the Baltic States are considered as objects of a foreign policy of the USSR. Soviet political ambitions immolated the independence of the three sovereign republics. Serious attention is paid to the aggressive foreign policy of the USSR and Germany, but there are a small number of studies where Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are described as agents of historical processes, trying to build their own internal and external policies. It should be noted that studies of many Baltic and Western historians are preconceived. They are juggling the facts; explore the causes and consequences of historical processes occurred in the Baltic republics from one side.