Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe : Infested ...

by Rumyantsev, Sergey (EDT)

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Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe : Infested With History, Hardcover by Rumyantsev, Sergey (EDT), ISBN 1032827114, ISBN-13 9781032827117, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "This book examines both formal and extracurricular education, and the politics of memory and historical narratives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine. The misalignment between memory politics and history politics forms a central theme of this book. Structured in three parts, it focuses on school education in the post-Soviet states over the 30 years between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The chapters inquire as to how post-Soviet school education, politics of memory, and history politics became active participants in the production of state-approved ideology, patriotism, and a state-prescribed understanding of the national past. Armed conflicts in the territory of the former USSR not only saw numerous victims and refugees but also the emergence of new borders and unrecognized (de-facto) states, and the annexation of territories. They also contributed to the creation of new sites of memory, generated their own traditions of commemoration for the heroes and victims of these confrontations, and led to the reconstruction of historical narratives and the construction of new national myths. The research in this book foregrounds how the nationalization of the public space and the reconstruction of national historical narrativ

• ISBN: 9781032827117
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