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In the Soviet Union history is taught in schools on the basis of a standard syllabus and standard series of textbooks in each of the fifteen republics. ‘Fifty million pupils are being taught’, an educationalist complained, ‘and for every group and every year there is one single textbook’.1 In higher education establishments, the main courses also follow standard textbooks on general and Soviet history and the history of the Communist Party.
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Voprosy istorii, no. 3, 1988, p. 26 (G. V. Klokova, head of a laboratory on history teaching in the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR).
See J. Muckle, A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum: What the Russian Child is Taught in School (London, 1988), pp. 129–41. These were previously forms IX and X.
Literaturnaya gazeta, February 17, 1988 (V. Orlov). Apparently all textbooks written in the republics ‘have to be taken to Moscow for approval’ (Sovetskaya Litva, August 14, 1988).
Voprosy istorii, no. 3,1988, p. 26 (G. V. Klokova).
See also the comment by G. Nikanorov, a school teacher, in Sovetskaya kul’tura, April 14, 1988.
Izvestiya, June 10, 1988 (I. Ovchinnikova).
Pravda, July 19, 1988 (L. Leonova, head of Department of History of CPSU(b), Faculty of History, Moscow University).
Voprosy istorii, no. 6, 1988, pp. 104–6 (A. I. Ovcharenko).
Literaturnaya gazeta, May 4, 1988 (V. Amlinskii).
The first, by Viktor Listov, appeared in Literaturnaya gazeta, July 13, 1988, and dealt with 1917–27; the second, by
G. Boryugov and V. Kozlov, appeared in Literaturnaya gazeta, October 12, 1988, and dealt with 1928–37.
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Davies, R.W. (1989). The Crisis in History Teaching. In: Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution. Studies in Soviet and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20060-3_13
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