he Great Patriotic War as a Civilizational War: Scientific and Methodological Recommendations for New History Textbooks

Aim. To develop scientific and methodological recommendations for rethinking the history of World War II and the Great Patriotic War based on the methodology of the civilizational approach in the prospect of compiling new textbooks on the history of Russia.

Methodology. The methodological basis of the study was the civilizational approach in understanding social development, in accordance with which recommendations were proposed for disclosing the history of World War II and the Great Patriotic War.

Results. In the course of the study, significant discrepancies were discovered between the approaches that dominated historiography and educational process in covering the history of World War II and the Great Patriotic War with the basic provisions of the theory of civilizations. The transition to the position of the civilizational approach determines the rethinking of the Great Patriotic War as a war of civilizations, in which the Russian civilization and the civilization of Europe, effectively united by Germany, clashed.

Research implications. The results of the study are aimed at their use in the educational process, as well as development of new approaches to teaching history.

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