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The History of the USSR According to School Textbooks of the USA.

Peer reviewed

Danilov, A. I.; Sharifzhanov, I. I. – Social Education, 1981

Analyzes information in social studies textbooks in the United States regarding the history of the USSR. Identifies major problems, including failure to take the work of Soviet scholars into account, political bias, oversimplification, distortion of the truth and failure to highlight achievements of Russian culture, science, and sociopolitical…

Descriptors: Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Needs, Social Studies

Teaching about Russia and the Soviet Union.

Peer reviewed

Mehlinger, Howard D; Rabinowitch, Alexander – Social Education, 1981

Introduces a cooperative project undertaken by the USSR Ministry of Education and by various educational institutions in the United States to assess what youth in each country learn about the other country from geography and history textbooks. The objective was to minimize misinformation. (DB)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction