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The problems of national history in the school literature of the 18th - beginning of the 20th centuries

Liberal Arts in Russia. 2015. Vol. 4. No. 6. Pp. 496-512.
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Abramkin O. S.
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
3 Senatskaya Sq., 190000 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Email: abramkin@prlib.ru

Abstract

The analysis of historical literature allows to consider profoundly the development of national culture and science of the 18th-first half of the 20th centuries and the formation and change of different historical concepts. With the analysis of historical periods that are highlighted in the research, general trends in the changing of paradigms about Russian historical development were concluded, which were translated to mass historical consciousness from the beginning of the 18th century up to 1917. The periods were closely connected with the specific political, historical and economic changes in Russian Empire and with the dominance of certain textbooks during this time. The books were selected because of a number of factors: their inclusion to the school curriculum, the number of publications (10 and more), the equal number of textbooks devoted to different historical periods. For the analysis were used 19 textbooks, schoolbooks for different courses of secondary schools and primary schools. All the sources of educational literature were grouped into two concepts - officially-state (patriotic) and the liberal. Each publication was highlighted the dominant concept as a base for the whole textbook. There is also a characteristic of the concepts that are presented chronologically. The analysis represents school history books as an important source for the formation of state policy in the representing of Russian history, and, that is more important, for creation of the concept of the state of Russian history.

Keywords

  • • history of Russia
  • • schoolbooks
  • • the 18th - beginning of 20th century
  • • ideology
  • • state concept of Russian history
  • • social historical consciousness
  • • Russian society and state authority

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