Source Materials about German History of the Twentieth Century (in Russian language)
Based on a completed research project about textbook work with CIS countries (sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation), this project involved both German and Russian researchers. Teaching materials were produced and implemented, in the form of a collection of sources on the subject of German history in the twentieth century. The source materials lend themselves to ideas from the fields of cultural, social and everyday history, and therefore offer a useful basis for the study of western European (German) phenomena alongside historical developments in CIS countries, while leaving behind the confines of a purely national approach to history. Further didactic aims of the project are: to give textbook authors in Russia access to a broad range of authentic source materials and to make available modern didactic methods with which they can make these sources accessible to pupils. At the same time the book is to be put to use experimentally in teaching as a chrestomathy (selection of source materials). It should greatly improve teaching conditions for certain target groups such as the German minority in Russia.
Iris Bülow was responsible for preparing the volume. Natal´ja Kovaleva and Dr Oksana Nagornaja translated texts. The project was rounded off in style on 21 May 2009 with a presentation ceremony in the German Embassy in Moscow.
Duration: 2003-2008
Cooperation partners
Prof. Dr. Aleksandr O. Tschubarjan (Institute for World History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
German-Russian Historian's Commission
Prof. Dr. Arkadij A. German (Saratov University)
OLMA Publishers, Moskow
Title of the source materials: Istorija Germanii XX veka v novom izmerenii: Istočniki, statistika, chudožestvennye dokumenty. Aleksandr O. Čubarjan i Robert Maier (izd.), Moskva: OLMA media grupp, 2008
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A significant contribution to German-Russian cooperation: The presentation of the Russian Chrestomathy on German History
This volume, produced in cooperation with the Georg Eckert Institute, was presented during a ceremony held at the residence of the German ambassador to Moscow.
Dr. Walter Jürgen Schmid, ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Moscow, invited a prestigious community of historians to his residence on May 21 2009, where a chrestomathy on German twentieth-century history, the result of a joint German-Russian project, was to be presented to the public. The solemn ceremony was accentuated by musical performances. The ambassador's speech was followed by an address from Russian co-editor Aleksandr O. Čubar’jan, who, as director of the Institute for World History at the Russian Academy of Science, emphasised that the book would prove to be highly useful at universities as well as in schools. Prof. Nina Deviatiaikina, a specialist in history didactics and herself a textbook author, proposed several suggestions for the implementation of the textbook in the classroom. Prof. Bernd Bonwetsch, director of the German Historical Institute, Moscow, acknowledged the book's attractive presentation of sources, and Olga Krasovskaja, Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house Olma-Press, underlined the didactic potential and the innovative character of a book developed via bilateral collaboration.
Contact:
Robert Maier
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Tel.: +49 (0)531 123103-271