“Us” and “Them” in National Collective Memory: Encounters with Images of Russian Empire and Soviet Russia in Czech, Finnish and Polish Upper Secondary School History Textbooks
Journal: Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja
Year: 2014

In the last twenty years, European identities have been in turmoil. The old borders of the Cold War era have crumbled and the EU has expanded towards the east. As a result, it has become important for Europeans to re-evaluate what 'us' and 'them' mean in a world of multiple identities. As our relationship to the world has changed we have been driven to reconsider the past from new perspectives. How are collective memories constructed? How has history defined our social evolution? These question