INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIA IN POST-SOVIET HISTORY TEXTBOOKS
The article discusses changes in the coverage of international relations and foreign policy of Russia (Russian Empire, RSFSR, USSR, Russian Federation) in the XX and early XXI centuries in history textbooks published in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. The main source is four history textbooks published in 1989, 1992, 2006, and 2012 respectively. At the same time, the first two textbooks can be considered as a single complex, since chronologically the first covers events before the beginning of the Great Patriotic war, and the second, respectively, pre-war years, the war itself and post-war development up to the time of writing the textbook. Sharp differences in the coverage of the same events in textbooks can be considered not only as a reflection of the changing domestic policy in post-Soviet Russia and the priority policy directions of the historical revolution, but also as a reflection of the changing stereotypes of mass consciousness in post-Soviet Russia. The set of stamps and stereotypes that are typical for each textbook indicates that the authors of textbooks do not reflect the corresponding historical era, but the time of its writing. The modern era is characterized by the blurring of both the politics of historical memory and the mass historical consciousness of Russians.