National, European, or Multicultural?
Year: 2025

This chapter traces the undoing of the late-Soviet historical model. Outlining a hybridity of the pro-Soviet and the nationalist in recent textbooks, the chapter delves into a deeper kind of hybridity marking the persistence of the Soviet-style understanding of social change and subjects of history, which includes a simplistic interpretation of historical causation, an organicist representation of the “people,” and an emphasis on the need for political leadership informed by the only correct ide