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Teaching about the Soviet Past

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History teaching collapsed in May 1988: school examinations were cancelled. Pupils entered the 1988/89 session with the old textbooks and with no approved syllabus.1

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Davies, R.W. (1997). Teaching about the Soviet Past. In: Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25420-0_9

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