Falsification of history as a threat to Russia's national security

Introduction. The politicization of history performs a completely technological task of ensuring the legitimacy of a particular political regime and mobilizing public opinion of various social groups. At the same time, the problem of the politicization of history is not one thing: this phenomenon has its own subspecies. Methods. In this scientific article we turn to the phenomenon of falsifying history as a threat to Russia’s national security. Results. Throughout 2018, in a special section, scientific articles on the falsification of history were published in a special section on the pages of the Academic Journal “Historical and Social-Educational Idea”. So, for example, the authors of the texts published in the journal touched upon the problems of modern “tsarebozhie”, interpenetration of cultures of Russia and Byzantium, the formation and development of the education system of the Muslim peoples of the North Caucasus (late XVIII - XIX centuries), falsification of the history of the organization of the Kabardian and Balkarian Police after the Civil War (1920-1923), the role of China in the victory over Militaristic Japan, the false interpretation of historical facts as a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation, the historical memory of students and the region and the problems of its falsification, falsification of drugs in Russia. Conclusions. The problem of falsifying history has a wide spectrum of ideological possibilities for destabilizing the political order of the state. Researchers pay attention to the destructive potential of falsifying history. Of course, in this matter there is a controversy of judgments, however, the scientific community is unanimous in the opinion that the problems of falsification and politicization of history deserve close analytical attention.