{"id":44832,"date":"2025-02-13T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44832"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:13:29","slug":"education-and-the-politics-of-memory-in-russia-and-eastern-europe-infested-with-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44832","title":{"rendered":"Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe: Infested with History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Sergey Rumyantsev<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This book examines both formal and extracurricular education, and the politics of memory and historical narratives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 narratives in the independent states reflect a desire to monopolize the power to interpret the past, with low tolerance of alternative accounts. In this light, the book covers issues such as the nation-state, Sovietization, national history creation, memory politics, religion, mass media, nationalism and patriotism, and analyzes the relationship of Azerbaijani and Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian societies with their histories and pasts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A novel study on the topic of memory and history writing, this is a timely contribution to the field of Post-Soviet history and Russian and Eastern European Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Open Access version of this book<\/strong>, available at http:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/oa-edit\/10.4324\/9781003505822\/education-politics-memory-russia-eastern-europe-sergey-rumyantsev\">https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/oa-edit\/10.4324\/9781003505822\/education-politics-memory-russia-eastern-europe-sergey-rumyantsev<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreword, <em>Eckhardt Fuchs;&nbsp;<\/em>1. \u201cInfested with History\u201d: An Introduction, <em>Sergey Rumyantsev&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Part I: Concepts of Patriotic Education&nbsp;<\/strong>2. Routes of the Post-Soviet Historical Imagination: Between \u201cCivilization\u201d and the \u201cNation-State\u201d, <em>Victor Shnirelman;&nbsp;<\/em>3. So Ashamed not to Know \u201cOur\u201d History: Conflicts, Memory Politics, Humanities, and the School in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine, <em>Sergey Rumyantsev;&nbsp;<\/em>4. Historification in Literature Education in Armenia, <em>Maria Karapetyan&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Part II: Myths and Mythologization in Textbooks and Curricula&nbsp;<\/strong>5. \u201cThe World of Islam\u201d and the Secular Political Regime: How Religion is Taught in Azerbaijani Schools, <em>Huseynova<\/em> <em>Sevil;&nbsp;<\/em>6. The \u201cAzerbaijani Genocide\u201d: Memory Politics and National History in Schools, <em>Jafar Akhundov;&nbsp;<\/em>7. Planted Flags? The Political Life of Trees and Arboreal Patriotism in Armenia, <em>Tsypylma Darieva;&nbsp;<\/em>8. National, European, or Multicultural? Ukrainian History Textbooks Reimagine the Country\u2019s Past, <em>Serhy Yekelchyk;&nbsp;<\/em>9. Guarding Against the Future: Socio-political Contexts of the \u201cList of One Hundred Books\u201d for Russian School Students in the 2010s, <em>Illya<\/em> <em>Kukulin&nbsp;<\/em><strong>Part<\/strong> <strong>III: History Policy and Politics of Memory&nbsp;<\/strong>10. History as a Political Language, <em>Ivan Kurilla;&nbsp;<\/em>11. Memory Practices in Donetsk: From the Establishment of Soviet Power to a Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022, <em>Oksana<\/em> <em>Mikheieva;&nbsp;<\/em>12. The Memory of the Great Patriotic War in the \u201cDonetsk People\u2019s Republic\u201d: Commemoration, School, and Mass Media, <em>Dmytro Tytarenko;&nbsp;<\/em>13. Fluid Narratives, Evolving Discourses: Armenian-Turkish Dialogue in a Changing Political Context, <em>Philip Gamaghelyan;&nbsp;<\/em>14. Patriotic Education Outside and After School: Concluding Thoughts, <em>Sergey Rumyantsev;&nbsp;Index<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sergey Rumyansev<\/strong> is a sociologist. In 2003-2014, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Baku). Since 2015, he is a co-founder of Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR Berlin) and leads projects on peaceful conflict transformation. His main areas of research include diaspora and migration, nationalism, politics of memory, history politics, Soviet studies, conflicts in the post-Soviet space. He is the author of <em>Migration and Diaspora-Building in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Main Tendencies and Dominant Discourses<\/em> (2014); and the editor of <em>Non-Objective Conflicts: Political Practices of Sharing the Common Past. Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria<\/em> (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN 9781032827117<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>352 Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published January 21, 2025 by Routledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Education-and-the-Politics-of-Memory-in-Russia-and-Eastern-Europe-Infested-with-History\/Rumyantsev\/p\/book\/9781032827117\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Education-and-the-Politics-of-Memory-in-Russia-and-Eastern-Europe-Infested-with-History\/Rumyantsev\/p\/book\/9781032827117<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-knjige","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Education.jpg?fit=180%2C270&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55072,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55072","url_meta":{"origin":44832,"position":0},"title":"Victoria Khiterer, \u201eBitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"25. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration\u00a0discusses the Holocaust in Kyiv and the efforts to memorialize the Babyn Yar massacre. 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