When the Future Came - The Collapse of the USSR and the Emergence of National Memory in Post-Soviet History Textbooks Paperback / softback
by Li Bennich-bjoerkma, Sergiy Kurbatov
Part of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series
Paperback / softback
Description
This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet statesRussia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova.
The collected papers illustrate how the events that started in 1985 and brought down the USSR six years later led to the rise of fifteen successor states, with their own historicized collective memories.
The volumes analyses juxtapose history textbooks for secondary schools and universities, and how they aim to create understandings as well as identities that are politically usable, within their different contexts.
From this emerges a picture of multiple perestroika(s) and diverging development paths.
Only in Ukrainea country that recently experienced two popular uprisings, the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignitythe people themselves are ascribed agency and the power to change their country.
In the other three states, elites are, instead, presented as prime movers of society, as is historical determinism.
The volumes contributors are Diana Bencheci, Andrei Dudchik, Liliya Erushkina, Marharyta Fabrykant, Alexandr Gorylev, Andrey Kashin, Alla Marchenko, Valerii Mosneagu, Alexey Rusakov, Natalia Tregubova, and Yuliya Yurchuk.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Scho
- Publication Date:08/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783838213354
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Scho
- Publication Date:08/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783838213354
