WIELKA WOJNA OJCZYŹNIANA W ROSYJSKIM PODRĘCZNIKU HISTORII
A PRZEKLĘCI I ZABICI WIKTORA ASTAFIEWA
THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN A RUSSIAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK AND VIKTOR ASTAFIEV’S THE CURSED AND THE KILLED
Author(s): Aleksander WawrzyńczakSubject(s): State/Government and Education, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: history of Russia; textbook; Viktor Astafiev; The Cursed and Killed; war; Russian literature; ideology; falsification;
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of introducing a new ideologically unified series of history textbooks into Russianschools, primarily Russian history textbooks for grades 10 and 11 by Anatoly Torkunov and Vladimir Medinsky. The contentof the textbook regarding the events of the Great Patriotic War was confronted with the image of the war in Viktor Asta-fiev’s outstanding epic The Cursed and Killed included in the list of recommended readings in the textbook. The carried outanalysis proves that in the conditions of the restoration of the imperial and totalitarian system in Russia, Russian literatureis its best achievement, including the work of Astafiev, whose 100th anniversary of birth falls is 2024.
Journal: Przegląd Rusycystyczny
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 186
- Page Range: 41-61
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Polish
