The Northern war (1700-1721) in modern Russian textbooks for the higher school

Abstract

© Serials Publications.Relevance of the studied problem is caused by the need of improvement of history of Russia textbooks for university students. The purpose of article is to characterize factual and ideological contents of Northern war parts (1700-1721) in modern Russian textbooks for the higher schools. The leading approaches in research are the problem and thematic and comparative approaches which allowed to differentiate the chosen problem on some key subjects and to carry out comparison of their contents in textbooks for the higher school and in the newest monographs of the Russian historians who study Northern war. The main results of the research are that the informational incompleteness of sections of the Russian textbooks which light Northern war is revealed. The ideological orientation of the contents of textbooks is opened. Lag of the actual contents and estimated judgments in textbooks from achievements of a modern Russian historiography is proved. Need of addition of textbooks materials is proved by the facts of a humane orientation. Materials of article can be useful to teaching history of foreign policy of Russia in the first quarter of the XVIII century, the history of Russia in XVIII century.