FORMS OF REPRESENTATION OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE AT THE TURN OF XIX – XX CENTURIES
We have done the analysis of forms of representation of the Russian people in the school textbooks of the late XIX - early XX centuries («Elementary course of General and Russian history» I.I. Bellarminov, «Brief essays on Russian history» D.I. Ilovaisky, P.N. Zhukovich «Russia under the scepter of the Romanovs»). The author attempts to interpret the ideological content of the "Russian". He conducts content analysis to explore the possible versions of use of the term "Russian", as well as discusses in detail the ethnic aspect of texts - that is, statements on the origin and development of the Russian people, their ethnic qualities, and relationships with other ethnic groups. The author concludes that the term "Russian" has a char¬acter superseding the "ethnic" and implies "co-citizenship". The belonging to the latter is grounded upon the commonly shared values of the Russian people (Orthodox Christianity, autocratic state rule in the first instance, history and culture). Both the set of these values and the interpretation of "Russianness" were by and large determined by the official ideology.