2023; Armenian Folia Anglistika, 19(1 (27): 167–177
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THE SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TEXTBOOKS ON HISTORY (objective history vs falsification)

Ashot Melkonyan*

Received: 2025-03-26 · Published: 2023-05-29

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THE SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TEXTBOOKS ON HISTORY (objective history vs falsification)
Author
Ashot Melkonyan
Published
2023-05-29
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Original
https://doi.org/10.46991/AFA/2023.19.1.167

Abstract

This article presents the process of creating new school textbooks on Armenian history in the post-Soviet years. The author emphasizes the necessity to revise a number of issues in Armenian historiography related to the ideological attitudes of the Soviet epoch. The revision of many issues by Armenian historians during the years of independence, such as periodization, the first state formations on the territory of the Armenian Highlands, the Armenian political parties, the First Republic of 1918-1920, Sovietization, etc., is reflected in the new history textbooks. The article provides examples of the distortion of Armenian and Russian history in various textbooks and emphasizes the importance of presenting the objective history in school textbooks for educating the younger generation.
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