УЧЕБНИКИ ПО ИСТОРИИ, ИЗДАННЫЕ В КИРГИЗСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКЕ. ОПЫТ АНАЛИЗА

Abstract

As the history of the Perestroika period has shown, the History teaching in school is often aimed not so much at educating the student as at shaping his worldview. The upbringing of a whole generation of young people in the spirit of constantly emphasizing the negative features of the Soviet past led to the fact that the collapse of the USSR was generally accepted with approval in most of the former Soviet republics. Therefore, the analysis of the content of history textbooks seems to us to be an extremely important and topical issue. Since the world has obviously entered a new stage of growing international tension in recent years, such an issue has become even more significant today. The article considers a number of textbooks on the history of Kyrgyzstan published in that country in the 21st century. Having analyzed the nature of the presentation of the history several major periods of history, the author concludes that modern Kyrgyz historiography is characterized, first of all, by traditional approaches that were formed back in the Soviet period. Although the tendencies of describing certain events in a purely negative way, characteristic of the 1990s, still persist in places, they no longer dominate.