New York Post

Russia’s new school textbook claims Moscow was ‘forced’ to invade Ukraine – and was edited by a Putin aide

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II. The ...
Jacobin on MSN

The triumph and tragedy of Russian women

Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...
The Washington Post

Putin conquers Russia’s history textbooks

Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov presents a new textbook for high school students in Moscow on Aug. 7. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images) What will Russia look like after President Vladimir ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Books To Boots: Critics Say New Russian History Textbook Is Propaganda, Preparation For War

As schools across Russia and the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine prepare for the start of the school year on September 1, some 650,000 copies of a brand-new history textbook for students in 11th ...
Politifact

Russian spokesman’s statement ignores centuries of Russian attacks

• Historians cite upwards of a dozen examples dating back to the 1500s in which Russia or the Soviet Union attacked another country without being militarily attacked first. • Russia may offer various ...
wsbt

Notre Dame professor explains history of Russia-Ukraine relations

For the past eight years, a Notre Dame professor has focused on Ukraine and how it relates to Russia. Her passion sparked during the Vietnam War, and now she has dedicated her life's work to ...
War on the Rocks

Imposing the Past: Putin’s War for History

But this is only one part of Putin’s narrative. The Great Patriotic War, Russia’s term for the Soviet Union’s war against the Nazis from 1941 to 1945, lies at the center of Russian memory politics and ...
The National Interest

Is the End of Russian History Close at Hand?

Vladislav Surkov, an ex-aide to Vladimir Putin, claims that, under Putin, Russia entered a new historical era—“the long state of Putin,” in which it returned to “its natural and only possible state of ...
The Hill

Will Russia’s history of violence come home to roost?

Putin and Russia have one thing in common: violence. Russian history is essentially a history of violent undertakings in the vast region known as Russia. In the same fashion, Putin’s life has been, ...
The Daily Overview on MSNOpinion

Underwater drone attack knocks out a $500M Russian sub in history-first strike

Ukraine has opened a new chapter in naval warfare, claiming to have crippled a high‑value Russian submarine with an explosive ...
The New Criterion

Narratives of Russian history

“You don’t even exist!” Characters in Russian fiction are always insulting each other in this way. They call each other zeroes, nothings, nonentities. The hero of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground ...