The Influence of the Soviet Mythology on the Interpretation of World War II in the Ukrainian and Russian History Textbooks: Comparative Analysis
Journal: Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University
Year: 2024

The collapse of the USSR in 1991 resulted in the creation of 15 independent states, each developing unique political and cultural approaches to manifest geographical and mental borders. However, the shared past resulted in the survival of the Soviet mythology. This investigation focuses on the detection of the Soviet mythology in Ukrainian and Russian textbooks. Chapters 30-36 of the Ukrainian history textbook for the 10th grade by Pometyn and Hypan (2018) and chapters 20-25 of the Russian histo