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Author: Lynn D. Nelson
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781563244797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the political and organizational factors that have shaped Russian economic reforms since the demise of the USSR, the author of this text draws on a variety of sources that cover political transition, economic reform, and regional and federal structures and processes.
Author: Julie Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781563244797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the political and organizational factors that have shaped Russian economic reforms since the demise of the USSR, the author of this text draws on a variety of sources that cover political transition, economic reform, and regional and federal structures and processes.
Author: Julie Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-31
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 131528751X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text sets Russia's current economic transformation in the context of economic and political change, and provides an overview of issues central to the economic reform debate in Russia. It also highlights the human dimension of large-scale economic change through case studies and interviews.
Author: Peter Reddaway
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 772
ISBN-13: 9781929223060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.
Author: Julie Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1315482630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines the political and organizational factors that have shaped Russian economic reforms since the demise of the Soviet Union. The author draws on a variety of sources - including interviews conducted in Ekaterinburg, Voronezh and Smolensk - to present a multilayered portrait of the successes, failures and umintended consequences of the reforms. The book covers: the consequence of dissolving the USSR and Russia's role in the CIS; political transition; economic reform; assessment of the political and social implications of neo-liberal moneterism and of the voucher privatisation programme; and both regional and federal structures and processes.
Author: Anders Åslund
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0881325376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ben Eklof
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1135765391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. Nevertheless, large-scale changes have been effected in finance, structure, governance and curricula. At the same time, there has been a renewed and widespread appreciation for the positive aspects of the Soviet legacy in schooling. The essays presented here compare current educational reform to reforms of the past, analyze it in a broader cultural, political and social context, and study the shifts that have occurred at the different levels of schooling 'from political decision-making and changes in school administration to the rewriting textbooks and teachers' everyday problems. The authors are both Russian educators, who have played a leading role in implementation of the reform, and Western scholars, who have been studying it from its very early stages. Together, they formulate an intricate but cohesive picture, which is in keeping with the complex nature of the reform itself. Contributors: Kara Brown, (Indiana University) * Ben Eklof (Indiana University) * Isak D. Froumin, (World Bank, Moscow) * Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama) * Igor Ionov, (Russian History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) * Viacheslav Karpov & Elena Lisovskaya, (Western Michigan University) * Vera Kaplan, (Tel Aviv University) * Stephen T. Kerr, (University of Washington) * James Muckle, (University of Nottingham) * Nadya Peterson, (Hunter College) * Scott Seregny, (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) * Alexander Shevyrev, (Moscow State University) * Janet G. Vaillant, (Harvard University)
Author: Lilii︠a︡ Shevt︠s︡ova
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality is the most current and comprehensive account of the achievements - and failures - of Boris Yeltsin's Russia. Combining keen political analysis with the unique perspective of a native observer, Shevtsova's book also offers a valuable assessment of the forces that will shape the post-Yeltsin era.
Author: Ben Eklof
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0429719388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFramed by an introductory essay by Ben Ekiof, the translated documents in this volume are crucial to understanding Russian educational reform efforts. These primary sources, based on previously unpublished statistical data and public opinion surveys, depict current conditions in Russia's schools. Reflecting the approach of the leading historian of education Edward Dneprov-now the powerful minister of education serving under Boris Yeltsin-the documents describe the radical reform philosophy and program first published in Teachers' Gazette in 1988, which now serve as the operative legislation for all secondary schools. The VNIK (Temporary Scientific Research Collective on the Schools) reform movement is a fascinating microcosm of perestroika in terms of goals, mobilization, and the complicated, painful process of implementation. This unique glimpse into Russian education in a period of turmoil will interest all those who follow Russian politics and society.
Author: Graeme Gill
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-03-23
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0191528889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet superpower, and the emergence of a new Russian state claiming to base itself on democratic, market principles. It has seen a political system shattered by a president turning tanks against the parliament, and then that president configuring the new political structure to give himself overwhelming power. These upheavals took place against a backdrop of social dislocations as the Russian people were ravaged by the effects of economic shock therapy. This book explains how these momentous changes came about, and in particular why political elites were able to fashion the new political system largely independent of the wishes of the populace at large. It was this relationship between powerful elites and weak civil society forces which has led to Russian democracy under Yeltsin being still born.
