Identity and Othering in Past and Present: Representations of the Soviet Era in Estonian Post-Soviet Textbooks

Identity and Othering in Past and Present: Representations of the Soviet Era in Estonian Post-Soviet Textbooks

This paper analyses representations of the ‘core Soviet era’ (1945-1985) in Estonian post-Soviet history textbooks (1989-2016). Attitudes towards the Soviet system have been a rich resource for identity building, and hence a powerful political tool across the whole of the post-Soviet block. Based on...

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Main Author: Katrin Kello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2018-02-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Subjects:
history politics
history textbooks
social memory
immigration
intergroup relations
othering
Estonia
Russian-speakers
Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/737

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http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/737

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