Russia’s Higher Education Ministry preparing new ‘patriotic’ history course for non-history majors
Russia’s Science and Higher Education Ministry has approved a plan to introduce a new history course for non-history majors in colleges and universities.
According to the document, which was published on the ministry’s official site, the course will start with Ancient Rus and end with the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine. The curriculum will reportedly highlight the role of a “strong central government for maintaining national statehood” at every stage of Russia’s development.
The plan also indicates that the course will reinforce Kremlin rhetoric in other ways. For example, it refers to Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution of Dignity as an “unconstitutional coup,” claims that the Minsk agreements “were torpedoed by the Kyiv regime and Western countries,” and calls Ukraine itself an “anti-Russia” that planned to use NATO’s help to recapture Crimea and the Donbas.
The new classes are slated to begin in September 2023.
