While researching a novel I found a Soviet document on our Library of Congress website: It fit nicely into the plot for Educating Finn Larkin.... It fit nicely into the Leftist curriculum adopted on most college campuses after the 1960s.
Exposing Imperialist Policies is dated January 21, 1971 and it lists events in U.S. History...from a Marxist perspective. Moscow wanted to stress these events in order to "force our ideological enemy [The USA] onto disadvantageous paths in the ideological struggle."
I've enjoyed the study of history all my life to include graduate school. When I first read this list in 2006 I understood that generations of American school kids have learned much of their American History from a man named A. Takovlev (I wonder if he's still alive). He was Assistant Chief of the Propaganda Department and sent "Attachment 170 Calendar of Certain Events" to the Central Committee in 1971 for their review.
You can review this document almost 40 years after the Central Committee did and then review the textbooks in your local schools or college courses. And then think waaaayy back to see if you're historical education came from Moscow...
www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/w2compar.html
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