TY  - JOUR 
TI  - " History Speaks Our Language!" A Comparative Study of Historical Narratives in Soviet and Post-Soviet School Textbooks in the Caucasus
PB  - Instituto Georg Eckert
PY  - 2007
issn 0172-8237
AB  - Long before the demise of the USSR, Western Sovietologists had noted the fact that
in the Soviet Union the official version of history changed frequently. However,
there is something that has passed almost unnoticed by the majority of scholars;
namely, the debate about which version of history should be considered as true,
and accepted as the official version to be included in school textbooks in the Soviet
autonomous republics. This paper deals with several aspects of this process and
its legacy by examining the way in which the distant past is presented in Soviet
and post-Soviet school history textbooks. The author reveals the conflicting ethnic
historical narratives in the textbooks of rival ethnic groups, focusing on the use
of linguistic arguments to link ethnic identity to the territory controlled by the
‘titular’ ethnic group, and on the justification of the historical legitimacy of claims
to territories by neighboring rival ethnic groups.
KW  - Historia - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Narrativa de la historia
KW  - Estudio comparativo
KW  - Unión Sovietica
KW  - Ciencia política
KW  - Political science
UR  - http://repository.icesi.edu.co/biblioteca_digital/handle/10906/82685
ER  -