Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: Legacies and Prospects

by Ben Eklof

This volume consists of a collection of essays devoted to study of the most recent educational reform in Russia. In his first decree Boris Yeltsin proclaimed education a top priority of state policy. Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow to reformist aspirations, and to the existing school system itself. The public lost faith in school reform and by the mid-1990s a reaction had set in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714657050
• ISBN13: 9780714657059
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"