Published: 2024-04-19

The Great Patriotic War in a Russian textbook and Viktor Astafiev's The Cursed and the Killed

Aleksander Wawrzyńczak Logo ORCID

Abstract

The article discusses the problem of introducing a new ideologically unified series of history textbooks into Russian schools, primarily Russian history textbooks for grades 10 and 11 by Anatoly Torkunov and Vladimir Medinsky. The content of the textbook regarding the events of the Great Patriotic War was confronted with the image of the war in Viktor Astafiev's outstanding epic The Cursed and Killed, which was included in the list of recommended readings in the textbook. The analysis carried out proves that in the conditions of the restoration of the imperial and totalitarian system in Russia, Russian literature is its best achievements, including the work of Astafiev, whose 100th anniversary of birth falls in 2024. remains a testimony to the truth about the evil of any war.

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Wawrzyńczak, A. (2024). The Great Patriotic War in a Russian textbook and Viktor Astafiev’s The Cursed and the Killed. Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (2 (186), 41–61. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.17195

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No. 2 (186) (2024)
Published: 2024-04-22


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

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Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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