title: Introduction: The Cold War in the Classroom International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices
abstract: Abstract In the introduction to the volume, Barbara Christophe presents the objectives of the book; namely to explore how the memory of the Cold War is negotiated in history textbooks, teacher narratives and the history classroom in a range of different countries. The multinational perspectives are of particular significance given that the story of the confrontaiton between East and West was once crucial for the articulation of political identites all over the world. Christophe discusses the var
journal: Palgrave studies in educational media