Sergey Rumyansev is a sociologist. In 2003-2014, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Baku). Since 2015, he is a co-founder of Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR Berlin) and leads projects on peaceful conflict transformation. His main areas of research include diaspora and migration, nationalism, politics of memory, history politics, Soviet studies, conflicts in the post-Soviet space. He is the author of Migration and Diaspora-Building in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Main Tendencies and Dominant Discourses (2014); and the editor of Non-Objective Conflicts: Political Practices of Sharing the Common Past. Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria (2017).

• Foreword; 1. “Infested with History”: An Introduction Part I: Concepts of Patriotic Education 2. Routes of the Post-Soviet Historical Imagination: Between “Civilization” and the “Nation-State”; 3. So Ashamed not to Know “Our” History: Conflicts, Memory Politics, Humanities, and the School in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine; 4. Historification in Literature Education in Armenia Part II: Myths and Mythologization in Textbooks and Curricula 5. “The World of Islam” and the Secular Political Regime: How Religion is Taught in Azerbaijani Schools; 6. The “Azerbaijani Genocide”: Memory Politics and National History in Schools; 7. Planted Flags? The Political Life of Trees and Arboreal Patriotism in Armenia; 8. National, European, or Multicultural? Ukrainian History Textbooks Reimagine the Country’s Past; 9. Guarding Against the Future: Socio-political Contexts of the “List of One Hundred Books” for Russian School Students in the 2010s Part III: History Policy and Politics of Memory 10. History as a Political Language; 11. Memory Practices in Donetsk: From the Establishment of Soviet Power to a Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022; 12. The Memory of the Great Patriotic War in the “Donetsk People’s Republic”: Commemoration, School, and Mass Media; 13. Fluid Narratives, Evolving Discourses: Armenian-Turkish Dialogue in a Changing Political Context; 14. Patriotic Education Outside and After School: Concluding Thoughts; Index

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Sergey Rumyansev is a sociologist. In 2003-2014, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Baku). Since 2015, he is a co-founder of Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR Berlin) and leads projects on peaceful conflict transformation. His main areas of research include diaspora and migration, nationalism, politics of memory, history politics, Soviet studies, conflicts in the post-Soviet space. He is the author of Migration and Diaspora-Building in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Main Tendencies and Dominant Discourses (2014); and the editor of Non-Objective Conflicts: Political Practices of Sharing the Common Past. Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria (2017).

• Foreword; 1. “Infested with History”: An Introduction Part I: Concepts of Patriotic Education 2. Routes of the Post-Soviet Historical Imagination: Between “Civilization” and the “Nation-State”; 3. So Ashamed not to Know “Our” History: Conflicts, Memory Politics, Humanities, and the School in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine; 4. Historification in Literature Education in Armenia Part II: Myths and Mythologization in Textbooks and Curricula 5. “The World of Islam” and the Secular Political Regime: How Religion is Taught in Azerbaijani Schools; 6. The “Azerbaijani Genocide”: Memory Politics and National History in Schools; 7. Planted Flags? The Political Life of Trees and Arboreal Patriotism in Armenia; 8. National, European, or Multicultural? Ukrainian History Textbooks Reimagine the Country’s Past; 9. Guarding Against the Future: Socio-political Contexts of the “List of One Hundred Books” for Russian School Students in the 2010s Part III: History Policy and Politics of Memory 10. History as a Political Language; 11. Memory Practices in Donetsk: From the Establishment of Soviet Power to a Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022; 12. The Memory of the Great Patriotic War in the “Donetsk People’s Republic”: Commemoration, School, and Mass Media; 13. Fluid Narratives, Evolving Discourses: Armenian-Turkish Dialogue in a Changing Political Context; 14. Patriotic Education Outside and After School: Concluding Thoughts; Index

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Sergey Rumyansev is a sociologist. In 2003-2014, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Baku). Since 2015, he is a co-founder of Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR Berlin) and leads projects on peaceful conflict transformation. His main areas of research include diaspora and migration, nationalism, politics of memory, history politics, Soviet studies, conflicts in the post-Soviet space. He is the author of Migration and Diaspora-Building in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Main Tendencies and Dominant Discourses (2014); and the editor of Non-Objective Conflicts: Political Practices of Sharing the Common Past. Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria (2017).

• Foreword; 1. “Infested with History”: An Introduction Part I: Concepts of Patriotic Education 2. Routes of the Post-Soviet Historical Imagination: Between “Civilization” and the “Nation-State”; 3. So Ashamed not to Know “Our” History: Conflicts, Memory Politics, Humanities, and the School in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Ukraine; 4. Historification in Literature Education in Armenia Part II: Myths and Mythologization in Textbooks and Curricula 5. “The World of Islam” and the Secular Political Regime: How Religion is Taught in Azerbaijani Schools; 6. The “Azerbaijani Genocide”: Memory Politics and National History in Schools; 7. Planted Flags? The Political Life of Trees and Arboreal Patriotism in Armenia; 8. National, European, or Multicultural? Ukrainian History Textbooks Reimagine the Country’s Past; 9. Guarding Against the Future: Socio-political Contexts of the “List of One Hundred Books” for Russian School Students in the 2010s Part III: History Policy and Politics of Memory 10. History as a Political Language; 11. Memory Practices in Donetsk: From the Establishment of Soviet Power to a Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022; 12. The Memory of the Great Patriotic War in the “Donetsk People’s Republic”: Commemoration, School, and Mass Media; 13. Fluid Narratives, Evolving Discourses: Armenian-Turkish Dialogue in a Changing Political Context; 14. Patriotic Education Outside and After School: Concluding Thoughts; Index

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