15 February 2008
A joint study by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Jewish Congress has found that many history textbooks in Russian schools completely avoid the subject of the Holocaust, despite the fact that the Nazis and their collaborators killed millions of Soviet Jews. Pogroms during the Russian civil war are also not mentioned in most textbooks. One book reportedly dramatically undercounted the number of Jews in the Russian empire in the 19th century. Researchers were unable to find a single textbook that adequately assessed the role of Jews in Russian history, and they plan to ask the Ministry of Education to review their recommendations.
