The Montreux Convention as a legacy of Soviet policy in contemporary Russia-NATO controversies: on the question of studying the Black Sea straits regime in school history curriculum

this article, based on an analysis of contemporary Russian and foreign historiography and applied to the needs of a school history curriculum, examines the historical process of concluding and maintaining the main provisions of the Montreux Convention until the current decades of the 21st century, as the final stage in the history of the complex nexus of global politics surrounding the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. The authors focus on analyzing attempts by the leadership of the Republic of Turkey and NATO to revise the most important provisions of this convention against the backdrop of the conflict between the Russian Federation and the collective West in connection with the beginning of the Second World War. The authors conclude that the Montreux Convention, which to this day determines the procedure for the passage of ships through the Black Sea straits, needs to be studied in school curricula (primarily within the framework of elective courses aimed at preparing students for the Basic State Exam and the Unified State Exam).

Bosphorus and Dardanelles, T?rkiye, the USSR, Montreux Convention, the Russian Federation, SMO, NATO