Russia and Ukraine Battling for Historical Truth

... power, he requires legitimacy, that is, a voluntary subordination and recognition of powers based on a universal understanding of social reality. The best explanation of the mechanism has been provided by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman, who defined legitimization as a process of forming the knowledge of the social and political system [3] . The system is created through secondary and university education, which gives rise to fierce battles over the content of history textbooks because the knowledge ...