The collection presents materials from an international scientific conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, in which historians from Russia, China, the USA, the Republic of Korea and Ukraine took part. The main attention is paid to the economics of war as a factor of Victory, the problem of “man, society and war”, the historical memory of the war and the contribution of historians to its preservation, the liberation mission of the Red Army in 1944–1945. in Europe and the Far Eastern theater of war, China's contribution to the defeat of Japanese militarism.