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Narrating the Soviet Era in Russian School History Textbooks book cover

1st Edition

Narrating the Soviet Era in Russian School History Textbooks

By Olga Konkka Copyright 2026
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917–1991). Representations of this part of Russia’s past in school manuals have provoked vivid debates and bolstered government intervention in the field, while a gradual shift towards a less critical narrative of the USSR in more recent textbooks is often presented as... Read more

Introduction: School History Textbooks: Mirrors of a Society

Part 1: Russian History Textbooks for the Study of the Soviet Period

1. History Education and Textbooks in the USSR

2. Between Innovation and Path Dependency (1992–2000)

3. Government Interventionism or a Search for a Consensus? (2001–2012)

4. Introducing the “Unified” History Textbooks (2013–2022)

Part 2: The Soviet Era in Post-Soviet Russian History Textbooks

5. How the First Soviet Decade Was Presented in Post-Soviet Russian History Textbooks

6. Stakes and Costs of “Modernization”: The Stalin Era as Portrayed in Post-Soviet Russian History Textbooks

Biography

Olga Konkka, who died in 2022, was Lecturer in Russian Academic Language and Research Methodology (master's level) at the Institute of Political Studies, Bordeaux, France.

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