THE DRAMA OF TRIALS IN THE TRACK OF RUSSIAN CYCLES (VALUE AND MACROSOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR NATIONAL HISTORY TEXTBOOKS)
The teaching of history in schools is always a kind of historical policy for education of the younger generations in order to form future citizens. In Russia, these questions are especially conflictual, and not only because of multiple ideological divisions in society with opposing interpretations of many periods, events, leaders. The main difficulty is the contradiction between educational function and the real historical material full of dispiriting facts. The corresponding problem has a value side and a cognitive one. The solution is proposed in the form of a system of value platforms to assess the past phenomena, and three conceptual frameworks (modernization attempts, cycles of state success dynamics and personal freedom dynamics, the circuit trials with changing content). Conflicting Russian history can be written as a drama, where the truth of tragic circumstances and even misdeeds is balanced by individual stories of heroes and righteous.