Schooling The New Russians

Author : Joseph I. Zajda
Publisher : James Nicholas Publishers
ISBN 13 : 187540838X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooling the New Russians written by Joseph I. Zajda and published by James Nicholas Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schooling the New Russians is an important volume for specialists in Russian education and general readers alike. It places recent reforms in the context of broader historical developments, with a wealth of first-hand insight and scholarly research. Professor David Turner, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan It is essential reading for anyone seeking to discover what lies below the surface of ‘modernization’ in Russian education. Dr. Vera Kaplan, The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University Joseph Zajda reveals in his important new book that Soviet propaganda against capitalism was largely true, given what is happening to the Russian education system today. This is a compelling and important text. Professor Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles Few scholars worldwide possess Professor Zajda’s breadth and depth of knowledge of pre and post-Soviet schooling and society. This text clearly and brilliantly elucidates the reforms, the successes, and the disappointments of schooling in the evolving New Russia. Professor Kas Mazurek, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Author : Hedrick Smith
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307829383
Total Pages : 925 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Russians written by Hedrick Smith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Russians, a “lively and provocative”* analysis of the Soviet Union in its twilight years. *The New York Times Book Review Even from afar, the transformation in the Soviet Union held a special fascination for all of us, and not only because it affected our destiny, our survival, even the changing nature of our own society. What happened there riveted our interest for a deeper reason: It was a modern enactment of one of the archetypal stories of human existence, that of the struggle from darkness to light, from poverty toward prosperity, from dictatorship toward democracy. It represented an affirmation of the relentless human struggle to break free from the bonds of hierarchy and dogma, to strive for a better life, for stronger, richer values. It was an affirmation of the human capacity for change, growth, renewal. The New Russians is about how that story of change began and what this change meant for the Russian people—and for the rest of the world.

Author : John Giduck
Publisher : Deer Creek Awards
ISBN 13 : 9780976775300
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terror at Beslan written by John Giduck and published by Deer Creek Awards. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeanne Sutherland
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooling in the New Russia written by Jeanne Sutherland and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the developments in general schooling in the USSR from 1984 to the end of the Soviet period and also considers the consequences of post Gorbachev developments in the schools of Russia and the former Soviet Union up to 1995-96.

Author : Anthony Jones
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765641854
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education and Society in the New Russia written by Anthony Jones and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Schools of New Russia written by Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yaroslav Kuzminov
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421444151
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education in Russia written by Yaroslav Kuzminov and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date look at modern Russian higher education. By the mid-eighteenth century, when the first university appeared in Russia, many European nations could boast of long and glorious university traditions. But Russia, with its poorly developed system of elementary and secondary education, lagged behind other European countries and seemed destined for a long spell of second-tier performance. Yet by the mid-twentieth century, the fully reformed system of Soviet higher education was perceived as an unexpected success, one that transformed the country into a major scientific power throughout the Cold War. Today, the international community is keeping close tabs on the fast development of world-class higher education in Russia, specifically its large-scale changes and reforms. Higher Education in Russia is the first comprehensive, up-to-date overview and analysis of modern Russian higher education. Aimed at a large international audience, it describes the current realities of higher education in Russia, as well as the main principles, logic, and relevant historical and cultural factors. Outlining the evolution of the higher education system in tsarist Russia throughout the nineteenth century, Yaroslav Kuzminov and Maria Yudkevich describe the development of its mass-scale higher education system from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond. They also discuss the principal elements of today's Russian higher education system while exploring the system's governance model and the logic of its resource allocation. They touch on university selection, the structure of the country's academic profession, the organization of research, and the major excellence programs of leading universities. Illustrating the idea that the development of the higher education system is very much linked with the European experience, the authors argue that Russian higher education was often the domain of successful (and not so successful) education experiments and innovations. Higher Education in Russia is a must-read for scholars of higher education and Russian history alike.

Author : S. Webber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333983521
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School,Reform and Society in the New Russia written by S. Webber and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-10-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian school system should have an important role to play in the process of democratisation and the revival and modernisation of the economy in that country. Is it in a position to respond to this task? In this book an analysis is conducted of the attempts to reform the Russian school system in the 1990s, setting the progress made and problems encountered by the schools against the broader context of political, economical and social flux in Russia as a whole.

Author : Cynthia H. Whittaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Modern Russian Education written by Cynthia H. Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory Feifer
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455509655
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russians written by Gregory Feifer and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today. Russians explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that makes them baffling to the West? Using the insights of his decade as a journalist in Russia, Feifer corrects pervasive misconceptions by showing that much of what appears inexplicable about the country is logical when seen from the inside. He gets to the heart of why the world's leading energy producer continues to exasperate many in the international community. And he makes clear why President Vladimir Putin remains popular even as the gap widens between the super-rich and the great majority of poor. Traversing the world's largest country from the violent North Caucasus to Arctic Siberia, Feifer conducted hundreds of intimate conversations about everything from sex and vodka to Russia's complex relationship with the world. From fabulously wealthy oligarchs to the destitute elderly babushki who beg in Moscow's streets, he tells the story of a society bursting with vitality under a leadership rooted in tradition and often on the edge of collapse despite its authoritarian power. Feifer also draws on formative experiences in Russia's past and illustrative workings of its culture to shed much-needed light on the purposely hidden functioning of its society before, during, and after communism. Woven throughout is an intimate, first-person account of his family history, from his Russian mother's coming of age among Moscow's bohemian artistic elite to his American father's harrowing vodka-fueled run-ins with the KGB. What emerges is a rare portrait of a unique land of extremes whose forbidding geography, merciless climate, and crushing corruption has nevertheless produced some of the world's greatest art and some of its most remarkable scientific advances. Russians is an expertly observed, gripping profile of a people who will continue challenging the West for the foreseeable future.