1st Edition
Russian Education Tradition and Transition
400 Pages
by
Routledge
In his address to the Communist Party in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev blamed the Party for the disastrous state of his country. Within five years, the Party had been outlawed, he had been deposed, the Soviet Union had disintegrated, and its economy was in chaos. It is within this framework that the freely debated proposals to change a system of education inherited in 1917 from Czarist Russia are... Read more
Series Editor's Foreword, Preface, Chronological Guide, Part One: Away from the Past, Part Two: Into the Future, Index
Biography
Brian Holmes, Gerald H. Read, Natalya Voskresenskaya
"The appearance of this book...is to be welcomed by the specialist and non-specialist on Russian education alike. It provides a valuable, early appraisal of the reform effort underway, and a detailed analysis of the contexts within which this process of change is taking place. The book's relevance to the past, present and future of Russian education means that it will have an active library shelf life for many years to come." -- East/West Education
"A valuable reference book for any serious student of the development of education in the former Soviet Union." -- Education in Russia, The Independent States and Eastern Europe
