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School textbooks of the history of the USSR in modern historiographic sources

https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-676X-2023-3-97-105

Abstract

Aim. To determine the development by historian scientists of one of the components of the state historical educational policy of the USSR - issues related to the creation and content of school history textbooks.

Methodology. The article reviews modern historiographic sources devoted to the issues which are related to creation and analysis of the content of school textbooks of the history of the USSR. When conducting the study, the comparative historiographic method was used, as well as methods for observing, generalizing and interpreting the results.

Results. In the course of the work, the existing methods of working with school textbooks as historiographic sources were identified, the degree of development of this type of sources in modern historical research was determined, the conclusions of historians, whose scientific works were devoted to school textbooks of the history of the USSR, were summarized.

Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the historiographic study of modern sources devoted to the state historical educational policy of the USSR.

About the Author

A.  A. Sotnikov
State University of Education
Russian Federation

Alexander A. Sotnikov – Рostgraduate student, Department of Methodology of Teaching History, Political Science and Law

ul. Very Voloshinoi 24, Mytishchi 141014, Moscow Region



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