Recoding the “History of the Motherland”: Teaching History at School in Post-Soviet Russia
Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Andrea Borelli
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/123
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 135-149 File size 185 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2024-123009
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the teaching of history was liberalised in Russia. However, disappointed by the failure of the initial reforms, the Russian government soon began a new authoritarian turn in schools. Since 2000, Putin has implemented an imperial-patriotic project in which the teaching of history must serve the State. The result has been an impoverishment of the educational offer and a tightening of the cultural standards that teachers must respect. In this way, students are involved in the militarisation of society desired by the Putin’s regime, according to which school is one of the privileged places for exercising social control. However, data on Russian public opinion show that the new generations have adopted a semi-passive resistance to government policy, refusing to conform to cultural and ideological dogmas in which they do not believe.
Keywords: Russia, school, education, history, Putin
Andrea Borelli, Ricodificare la “storia patria”: l’insegnamento scolastico della storia nella Russia post-sovietica in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 123/2024, pp 135-149, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2024-123009