The debut of the Russian government’s new standard history textbooks, complete with chapters softening the the legacy of Joseph Stalin’s great terror to the point of ambiguity, indoctrinating the youth with Vladislav Surkov’s sovereign democracy model, and providing a thoroughly revisionist history of Vladimir Putin’s taming of the oligarchs, caused a great furor when they were debuted last year. We published several translated articles about the textbook, and many others in the media really teed off on the subject. Now, thanks to a contributor at La Russophobe, we have a look at the actual text.