Kazakhstani History Education Considered via Textbooks’ War Narratives, with a Focus on the “Great Patriotic War”
Journal: The Asian review of World Histories
Year: 2023

Abstract The article is devoted to how history is taught in Kazakhstan. We take a concrete example: how the complex history of World War II , a topic that has been highly ideologized in Soviet historiography, is presented in the history textbooks of the post-Soviet period. The study defines how the history of the Great Patriotic War – that is, the Soviet Union’s struggle against the Nazis – has undergone conceptual transformations to varying extents in the textbooks of the countries of the forme