The Great Patriotic War in the perception of modern children and adolescents: experience of monitoring research

The article presents a comparative analysis of the results of three studies conducted in 2015, 2020 and 2025 on the perception of the Great Patriotic War among children and adolescents. The findings reveal the evolving role of schools and children’s libraries in engaging young generations with the topic through events, literature, and innovative formats of educational work.

The study shows that books and school textbooks remain the primary sources of information about the war for children, maintaining their leading position over the past decade. At the same time, films and TV series – including screen adaptations of Soviet war literature – continue to play a significant role in shaping historical consciousness.

Notably, the Internet has become an increasingly important information source over the ten-year period, while television’s influence has declined substantially. Despite the widespread use of the Internet, this source of information has not replaced traditional sources (printed books and educational literature), but has helped to promote high-quality and time-tested texts through new formats of access to literature (online services and platforms for reading books, specialized resources about the Great Patriotic War created by librarians, teachers, museums, etc.).

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