He there are several factors driving the politicization of history in Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

On Sunday,Russian nationalists Orange Revolution. in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, threw Ukrainian history textbooks into boxes at the foot of a local monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

(Speaking in Russian) Stelmakh says a look at school text books being published in Ukraine,the Baltics, and in other post-Soviet republics shows them to be attempts to distance those countries from Russia -- especially with regard to courses in national history.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25