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Back in the USSR: New high school textbooks in Russia whitewash Stalin’s terror as Putin wages war on historical memory

  • Written by Anya Free, Faculty Associate in History, Arizona State University

Hey, kids, meet Josef Stalin.

New Russian high school textbooks – introduced in August 2023 on the instruction of President Vladimir Putin – attempt to whitewash Stalinist crimes and rehabilitate the Soviet Union’s legacy. While schools and teachers previously could pick educational materials from a variety of choices, these newly...

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