«Ukraine–Rus», Finno-Ugric Colonies and Belarusian National Customs: Sovereignty Justification in Official Textbooks on a National History of Ukraine and Belarus

Article contains the analysis of the latest official textbooks on a national history of Ukraine and Belarus. Textbooks are considered in the light of problems of justification of the national sovereignty, facing historians of the states formed after disintegration of the USSR. The comparative analysis allowed to reveal two types of such justification: anti-Russian and not having confrontational tendencies. Thus, both types showed the efficiency.

Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, national history, sovereignty, mythologization, school and high school textbooks