| Summary: | <p>The article examines the new thematic perspectives prevailing in Western historiography of the Great Patriotic War. The analysis is implemented on the basis of the French scientific periodicals of 2001–2013 years. Historical survey of contemporary Russian Studies seeking to fill research gaps and form a new problem fields in the study of the World War II Eastern Front history. These studies continue the trend of the second half of 1990 – the beginning of the 2000s, which withdrow themes of Soviet history from politicized totalitarian interpretations to ideologically neutral field of renewed social history. New vectors of study based on the use of newly opened archives hold a "context" study of pre–war and post–war international political events related to the activities of the Soviet regime, including sensitive issues of the Soviet Union geopolitical expansion in Eastern Europe; the survey of different social ( ethnic, gender , religious ) groups in the war and in the " out of the war " process; Stalins's strategies of management, military repression, " purges " and ideological influence on the population.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To reveal the areas of contemporary Western Russian Studies research in the history of the Great Patriotic War.</p><p><strong>Methodology </strong>: problem historiography.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Results: </strong>the newest thematic areas of research and methodological techniques of WWII Western Russien studies are identified.</p><p><strong>Practical implications: </strong>research and teaching activities in the field of the Russian history.</p><p><strong>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-10-26">http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-10-26</a></strong></p>
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