Education in the U.S.S.R.


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Education in the USSR


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Education in the USSR


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Education in the USSR


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The Politburo of the Communist party controls all aspects of Soviet life, including education. Education is the responsibility of all the organizations, institutions, and persons in the state, but the schools, as directed by the Party, have the leading role in developing a citizenry of proper social outlook. This "new Soviet man" will not only contribute through his labor to the expansion of Soviet industrial and military power, but will also actively participate in building a Communist society. The Soviet Union has one of the most extensive preschool programs in the world, providing free, voluntary, nursery schools for children from two month to three years, and kindergartens for children from three to seven years. General education is provided through a system of primary schools (through third grade), incomplete secondary schools (through eighth grade), and the complete secondary school (through tenth grade, for those who pass examinations at the eighth grade level). The curriculum at all levels of schooling is set nationally. Teacher education is particularly important since education is the primary means for spreading Communist ideology. This booklet describes the nature of Soviet education, noting philosophical emphases, structural characteristics, and major problems of the Soviet system. (Author/PGD)










25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries


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This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.