Narrative plots about the Cossacks in school textbooks of regional history

The article analyzes the narrative patterns by which regional history textbooks construct the portrayal of the Cossacks. A content analysis of six textbooks (grades 5–10) was conducted using text mining tools, including TF-IDF and graph analysis, with the help of the R with IDE RStudio and Gephi. The study concludes that the textual image of the Cossacks is primarily used to construct the regional identity of Krasnodar region residents, while its characteristics vary across different textbooks.