Abstract

This article examines the political, cultural and social changes in two Latvian language textbook editions, one published in 1980 during the Soviet era, and the other in 1994 in the newly independent Republic of Latvia. The following findings stemming from the quantitative and qualitative analysis are presented: political information; cultural information; geographical information; role models and heroes; and spatial scene. The study suggests that the process of the de‐Sovietisation of Latvian textbooks does not imply depolitization, since one form of political reproduction, teaching Soviet citizenship, appears to have been entirely replaced by another form of political reproduction, Latvian citizenship.