Макрорегион, мезорегион или административно-территориальная единица: поиски «родного края» в учебных пособиях по региональной истории России

Гуманитарные исследования в Восточной Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке. 2025. № 2. С. 70–78.

Beresneva N.

Based on the analysis of the titles of 340 late-Soviet regional history textbooks, this article explores how the boundaries of the «native land» were articulated by various regions of the RSFSR depending on their self-presentation strategies. The author categorizes the diverse naming approaches into three groups: 1) generic-functional titles, 2) titles referencing specific administrative-territorial units, and 3) titles appealing to historical-geographical categories (macro/mesoregional level). The study concludes that during the Soviet era most regional history textbooks fell into the first two categories, while the post-Soviet period saw a rise in textbooks focusing on meso- and macroregions.

Keywords: school textbooks, региональная история, regional history, macroregion, школьный учебник, мезорегион, mesoregion, self-presentation of a region, родной край, макрорегион, самопрезентация региона

Publication based on the results of: War and Post-War Peace in the Russian Empire and the USSR (2025)