Tre små berättelser och en läroboksskildring om Sovjetunionen under Stalins regim : En historiedidaktisk analys av fiktionens potential i historieundervisningen på gymnasiet

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate what three fictional narratives can contribute to the history education in Swedish upper secondary school and how they stand in comparison to a history textbook. We focus on narratives about the Soviet Union during the reign of Stalin from the end of the 1920’s to 1953. The studied material consists of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn, the graphic novel Survilo by Olga Lavrentieva and the film Mr. Jones directed by Agnieszka Holland. These fictional narratives are compared to the history textbook Perspektiv på historien 1b from Gleerups.  To enable an analysis and discussion about the fictional narratives contribution to history education a narrative method focusing the structure and content of the stories is used. The fictional stories were analyzed and compared to the textbook. The result was then discussed in relation to previous research, the curriculum and history didactical theory.  The study found that the fictional narratives all depict the individual perspective and the human experience, whilst the textbook focuses on the wider perspective of the history of the Soviet Union. We came to the conclusion that the fictional narratives contribute with a human perspective but that the wider picture of the textbook cannot be excluded.