About the Unified History Textbook. Conceptual Approaches

The relevance of the topic is evidenced by the unceasing discussions both in the past and in the present. In 1836, the Ministry of Public Education announced a competition for the writing a textbook of Russian history; a hundred years later, in 1936, this request was again formulated in a different historical context. The author of the article analyzes the tasks that had to be solved by a single textbook of Russian history in different eras. The author emphasizes the problem of forming historical memory and the development of value and meaning orientation in the life of the younger generation.