This edition is a two-volume version of the eponymous four-volume, published in 2000-2004 and has long won the recognition of readers. This is the first one since 1991. attempt of a comprehensive study of the history of international relations of the last eight decades of the 20th century. The first volume deals with the period of the end of the First World War until the end of the Second. Special attention is paid to the subjects of the Versailles settlement , International Relations in the Zone of the Nearest Perimeter of Soviet Russia , June and the first stage of the Second World War before the entry of the USSR and the United States , development of the situation in East Asia and the situation in the peripheral zones of the international system. The publication is addressed to specialists and a wide range of readers - teachers, researchers, students, undergraduates and graduate students of humanitarian universities and those who are interested in the history of diplomacy and foreign policy of Russia.