“Historical Falsification” as a Master Trope in the Official Discourse on History Education in Putin’s Russia
Journal: Journal of Educational Media Memory and Society
Year: 2021

This article explores a key claim underpinning Russian official memory politics, namely, the notion that Russia’s past (and especially the role it played in the Second World War) is the object of a campaign of “historical falsification” aimed at, among other things, undermining Russian sovereignty, especially by distorting young people’s historical consciousness. Although “historical falsification” is an important keyword in the Kremlin’s discourse, it has received little scholarly attention. Vi