State Policy in School Book Publishing 1990s – First Half of 2020s: From the “Chaos of Abundance” to “Unified” Textbooks of National History

The author of the article examines the state policy in Russia regarding school textbooks on national history and changes in school history education in the 1990s – the first half of the 2020s. Within this period, three stages are distinguished: the 1990s, when the process of de-ideologization of historical education and the gradual rejection of the class approach to the interpretation of historical events began, when the authorities practically ceased to control the process of publishing school history textbooks; the 2000s, during which the search began for a new concept of school history textbooks that do not belittle the role of Russia in world processes and explain the need for tough measures by the state in certain periods of Soviet history, and attempts were made to create the “only correct” textbook on the history of the 20th century; the 2010s – first half of the 2020s, during which the idea of creating “unified” textbooks was imple-mented, built in line with the state interest in depicting national history, the content of which is aimed at the formation of civic-patriotic qualities of the individual, which were to a certain extent lost by the specified period.