Kitsoft: Vitaliy Dribnytsya on the most widespread Russian historical myths (04.10.2025)

An overview lecture-meeting (organized by Kitsoft, 04.10.2025) by the historian and blogger Vitaliy Dribnytsya on the most widespread Russian historical myths. Among the topics covered are Kyivan Rus’ and the “three fraternal peoples,” chronicle Rus’ vs “scholarly-constructed” Rus’ (after Rybakov), the academic twenty-volume edition «История России» (2024) as an instrument for appropriating the history of Eastern Europe, the transfer of Crimea in 1954, the myth that “Ukraine was created by Lenin,” Bandera and collaboration, and language as a “dialect.” For deduplication, only the fragments that add something new beyond what has already been covered were taken: the emergence of history as a science from the 19th century (Leopold von Ranke) as opposed to the “historians” Tatishchev and Karamzin; the fact that the copies of the Primary Chronicle ended up on Russian territory; and the distinction between the imperial myth (“single Russian people”) and the Soviet one (“three fraternal peoples”). A source for the article on Russian history textbooks.