Facing the Ugly Past: A Need for Glasnost in the West.

Schwartz, David

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Publication Date: 1989

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Facing the Ugly Past: A Need for Glasnost in the West.

Schwartz, David

Social Education, v53 n1 p33,60 Jan 1989

Urges the frank examination of painful episodes in Western and other open societies' recent history to achieve glasnost and historical honesty. Cites the Klaus Barbie trial and the accompanying embarrassment for both France and the United States. Points out distortion in Japanese textbooks on the pre- and World War II years and in U.S. textbooks on the Vietnam War. (LS)

Descriptors: Asian History, Elementary Secondary Education, European History, Foreign Countries, History Textbooks, North American History, Social Studies, Textbook Bias, Western Civilization, World History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - General

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Austria; France; Japan

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