SCHOOL HISTORICAL EDUCATION REFORMS AND REGIONS’ AGENCY: THE CASE OF THE RSFSR
Keywords:
school curriculum, education reforms, local history textbooks, history of the native land, regional history, late Soviet period, RSFSR, regional proactivityAbstract
This article examines the school textbooks on local history that were bound to appear in each administrative region of the RSFSR in accordance with the changes in school education. By tracing the reforms chronologically, the author shows that the call for the publication of textbooks on local history in the subjects of the RSFSR in 1961 was not a “one-time action”. The state, represented by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, consistently returned to this issue right up until the very end of the USSR, demanding the publication of textbooks in territories that sabotaged this process. Since 1973, special attention has been paid to territories with a "national component"—the ASSRs and autonomous regions. In terms of content, the basic requirements for textbooks of this type were formulated back in 1962: the main priority was the issue of the relationship between national and local history. A preliminary analysis of the collected database (containing 340 school textbooks on regional history published between the 1960s and 1991) allows us to identify the territories most actively involved in the process of publishing such textbooks. A quantitative analysis revealed that the territories with the “national component” were the most active in terms of total number of publications over the entire indicated period. In terms of the “promptness”, the “first place” was shared by the Tatar ASSR and Mari ASSR, as well as the Ivanovo Oblast.References
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