Russian soldiers are profiled as heroes, with no mention of civilian casualties or war crime accusations. They will read that the Kremlin’s “special military operation” is unifying society against an “ultranationalist” neighbor and its Western backers, who are to blame for instigating the conflict. The book will be used by history teachers across the country, including in Russian occupied Ukrainian territories, to teach students in their final year of high school about the period from 1945 on. This article is a perfect example of the use of history for political means:Ī new textbook - churned out in just four months and touted as the first state effort to unify teaching of the subject since the Soviet era - echoes Kremlin propaganda justifying the war in Ukraine, the latest stage of a drive to shape the worldview of a new generation. The reason for this approach is that Putin uses history to justify his political and social actions. We spent one week on Imperial Russian history and will spend this week on Soviet history. Two weeks ago, we started our class at Utah Valley University on Putin’s Russia.
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