The article examines how Presidents of Weimar Republic F. Ebert and P. von Hindenburg created forecasts and planes towards Soviet Russia in 1920s, diversity of their opinions also focuses on German perception of the soviet elite, stereotypes and images that affects German policy.
The article analyzes the views and diplomatic practices of the Russian statesman and scholar N. V. Charykov aimed at solving the problem of creating a system of international security. The formation of Charykov’s views and their development is traced. The most important aspect of his reasoning was consideration of the evolution of the status of peace treaties from ‘eternal’ to ‘relative’ as an important condition for excluding the military way of solving international problems.
