Narrating the Soviet Era in Russian School History Textbooks

Olga Konkka (University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

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Routledge
03 September 2025

European history; The Holocaust; Second World War; Marxism & Communism; Nationalism

Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

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 directed by Vladimir Putin. This study combines research into these texts and inquiry into those who write, publish, approve, or criticize them. Bringing together these perspectives provides a more complex view of school textbooks as final products of both top-down and bottom-up processes.

This volume is aimed at postgraduates, researchers, and academics specializing in Soviet history, contemporary Russian politics and society, and history education and textbooks.

By: Olga Konkka (University of Bordeaux Montaigne France)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781032214382
ISBN 10: 1032214384
Series: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 03 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.