"Presentism" versus "path dependence"? Reflections on the Second World War in Russian textbooks of the 1990s.

Autor/in	Ehrlich, Serguey
Titel	"Presentism" versus "path dependence"? Reflections on the Second World War in Russian textbooks of the 1990s.
Quelle	In: Journal of educational media, memory, and society, 13 (2021) 1, S. 58-81Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2041-6938; 2041-6946
DOI	10.3167/jemms.2021.130104
Schlagwörter	Geschichtsunterricht; Schulbuch; Geschichtsbild; Russland; Schulbuch; Geschichtsbild; Geschichtsunterricht; Weltkrieg II; Russland
Abstract	In the fifteen Russian textbooks of the 1990s examined in this article, the Second World War is subject to three levels of reflection: language, narrative templates, and the representation of contested events. The language used in the textbooks represents an amalgam of Soviet propagandistic clichés and uncritically adopted Western terminology. These textbooks also retain the same "schematic narrative template" of the Second World War, based on references to the expulsion of foreign enemies, found in Soviet textbooks. Significant transformations can be observed only in the representation of events, in which the authors' harsh criticism of Stalin's crimes comes to the fore. Yet these superficial changes did not alter the basic structures of history learning, which was one of the main reasons why working through the past during the Yeltsin era almost failed.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2022/2