Historian every Saturday: Vasyl Pavlov. Dogs of War or Doves of Peace: military history in wartime (21.06.2025)

Date
21 June 2025
Duration
58:43
Platform
YouTube
Participants
Vasyl Pavlov

A lecture by military historian Vasyl Pavlov (the “Historian every Saturday” series) on the instrumentalization of military history in Russia. Key points: the new textbooks “Military History of Russia” (2024–25, curated by Medinsky) as a mobilization tool; a single militarist narrative that fuses Muscovy and the Russian Federation into one whole (despite the wars between them) and erases non-Russian peoples and Ukrainians; an international propaganda campaign (exhibitions worldwide, dissemination through embassies). A source for the article on Russian history textbooks.

Key moments

  1. 2:30 Military history as a mobilization tool; Medinsky, new textbooks of 2024–25
  2. 27:36 A single militarist narrative: Muscovy → the Russian Federation fused into one, peoples erased
  3. 32:07 International campaign: exhibitions worldwide for the 80th anniversary, erasing Ukrainians

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