UDC 94 (57)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/2306-8329_2024_96_4_76

Authors

Postnikov Sergey V.,
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the branch of the Military Academy of Logistics named after Army General A.V. Khrulev of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Volsk, Russian Federation
Fedorova Svetlana I.,
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Ulyanovsk State University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federat

Abstract

In recent years, the topic of concern about the attempts of individuals and entire political systems to change the historical memory of the people, to falsify the facts of even very recent history, has become more and more persistent. The most outrageous thing is that school textbooks become a means of falsification, and the consciousness of schoolchildren – the younger generation - becomes the object of historical manipulation. This problem concerns both the layers of history as a whole and individual facts and events significant for the militarypolitical self-identification of peoples.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the most typical facts of distortion of the events of the Battle of Stalingrad, which took place 80 years ago during the Great Patriotic War, in school textbooks used in the post-Soviet space.
Methodology. The authors of the article used the historical and systematic method as the basis of their research, which allowed them to identify the main patterns in determining the levels and depth of manipulation of historical facts in school textbooks. As working methods, the researchers used the observation of the content of texts and the comparison of the revealed judgments about the Battle of Stalingrad, their dialectical, semantic, teleological and cluster analysis.
Scientific novelty. The problem raised by the authors is already known, but until now it sounded like a postulate requiring consideration. And even more so in previous works, there was no task of a comprehensive analysis of a specific event in the sources of several geopolitical and ideological systems. This is the first time such work has been carried out in this article.
The practical significance is obvious and explained by the very statement of the purpose of this study. The authors give ideologists a set of arguments against Russia’s geopolitical opponents, and help ideological supporters of our country understand the essence of their individual misconceptions.

Keywords

war, Battle of Stalingrad, falsification, history, education, victory.