Tatiana Maximova-Mentzoni - The Changing Russian University: From State to Market

When the Soviet Union collapsed universities were freed from state control and left to themselves. This forced universities to be much more market-oriented. This book explores this transformation from the end of the Soviet Union until the present. Based on extensive original research, the book charts the struggles of universities, showing how chaos and decline came to what had been one of the triumphs of the Soviet Union a higher education system which provided a high standard of advanced education to large numbers of people and made major research achievements. The book shows how lack of funds, lack of commercial experience and the ending of former means of support such as strong university-state industry links brought about huge disruption; how universities responded with a range of measures such as charging for tutoring and examinations, handling research on a commercial basis and new forms of co-operation; and how all this impacted on subjects of study and on underlying ideas about what a university is for. The book argues that the shock to the system in Russia was so severe that the Russian case serves as an excellent survival guide to universities experiencing similar changes in other parts of the world. By investigating the phenomenon of Russian universities becoming more market-oriented the book contributes to developing the concept of marketization further. It summarizes the existing knowledge in this field of study, offers a new framework for analysis of the phenomenon of university marketization and discusses the marketization of Russian universities in the light of comparative studies.

Tatiana Maximova-Mentzoni completed her doctorate in Business Studies at the University of Nordland in Norway and is currently a researcher at the Norwegian Directorate for Integration and Diversity.

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Global markets and a Russian region

Gender and employment strategy

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Landscape, religion and knowledge in motion

Primetime drama and comedy

Putin's foreign policy towards the CIS Countries

A failed exercise in defence decision making

Development processes and policy challenges

Reaching agreements, digging trenches

Exploring and rethinking subcultural lives

Successes and failures

Economic, geopolitical and institutional uncertainties

Moving images of Postcommunism

From regional supremacy to global lead

Politics, culture and Greater Russia

The ideological origins of early Soviet State violence

Challenges, (mis)perceptions, and responses

From state to market

First published 2013
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