Panfilov O. Anti-Soviet Stories Book

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Oleg Panfilov (b. 1957) is a journalist, human rights activist, publicist, historian, professor, former author and host of a program on Radio Liberty and the Russian-language TV channel PIK, Georgia. Author of scripts for eight films, more than 3000 articles published in newspapers and magazines in Russia, USA, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, winner of international awards, author and co-author of 48 books. Cavalier of the Order of Honor, Georgia.

The history of the Soviet Union has long become an integral part of the ideology: what is beneficial for the population to know, and what is not beneficial, was determined by the policies of the ruling party. Soviet history textbooks clearly regulated the quantity and quality of knowledge supplied to the people. And now in Russia, strange and sometimes terrible collisions are taking place with historical science: on the one hand, official historians are fulfilling the order of the “party and government”, looking for, for example, the genealogy of Vladimir Putin, drawing a genealogy that did not exist, on the other hand, in Russia a lot of amateur historians appeared, writing works about "Georgia - mountainous Russia" or about how the Russians captured the Chinese empire in the 1st millennium BC.

The author is convinced that years will pass and no one will need either textbooks written at that time, or multi-volume scientific works praising the Soviet state. They will be stored in libraries as monuments to the post-Soviet ideology that destroyed everything - from states to the psyche of the population, which overnight became a great nation. These textbooks will become evidence of how pro-Russian leaders of the regional scale tried to put themselves on a par with great cultures and states. 

Number of pages: 416