The Classroom And The Chancellery State Educational Reform In Russia Under Count Dmitry Tolstoi

Author : Allen Sinel
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015008576400

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The Classroom and the Chancellery: State Educational Reform in Russia Under Count Dmitry Tolstoi by Allen Sinel Pdf

The specific challenge that confronted Count Dmitry Tolstoi as Minister of Education was to raise the educational level of the Russian people without giving them the intellectual weapons with which to threaten the autocracy. The efforts of Tolstoi's ministry to resolve this dilemma resulted in comprehensive reforms which shaped the Russian school system until early in the twentieth century. It is interesting therefore that, until now, there has been no complete analysis of all aspects of Tolstoi's ministry. Allen Sinel's study fills that gap. Beginning with the historical, political, biographical, and administrative contexts for Tolstoi's reforms, Sinel then provides a detailed examination of Tolstoi's transformation of Russian education at all levels, particularly the secondary level, which was the cornerstone of his program. The ministry's greatest achievement in improving the school system was increasing the number of schools and supplying trained teachers to staff them. Less successful were Tolstoi's efforts to minimize the political consciousness of the students. Tolstoi's methods were short-sighted and negative, helping to create the very elements of alienation and antagonism that might destroy the existing regime he wanted so much to protect and preserve. Sinel's analysis of Tolstoi's program, the most durable of the tsarist period, provides a much-needed survey of the Russian educational system at a crucial time in Russian history. In addition, the study contributes to a more balanced assessment of one of tsardom's most important bureaucrats.

Author : Mustafa Tuna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032491

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Imperial Russia's Muslims by Mustafa Tuna Pdf

Investigates the entangled transformations of Russia's Muslim communities from the late eighteenth century through to the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkish sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the transformation of Imperial Russia's oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims.

Author : Richard Wortman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : European 6
ISBN : 0691029474

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Scenarios of Power: From Alexander II to the abdication of Nicholas II by Richard Wortman Pdf

Author : David Johnson
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927410

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Politics, Modernisation and Educational Reform in Russia by David Johnson Pdf

The chapters in this volume give an account of the process of modernisation and educational reform in Russia, variously considering the cultural and political dilemmas provoked by democratisation, the structural and policy challenges associated with the reform of higher and vocational education, and the deep divisions exposed as socio-cultural activity is brought into alignment with the new discourse of freedom and choice. The volume stimulates an important debate about the methods that inform cross-national and cross-regional work on educational change. This is particularly salient in a study of educational reform in Russia, and begs the question, ‘whose way of thinking, of constructing meaning, and of experiencing the world’ is used to judge the weight and the direction of change? Each chapter shows that a thorough understanding of the nature of change and the direction of reform is only achieved through the ability to decentre - or take on board - the ‘other’ worldview. It argues, therefore, that it is worldview, rather than culture or nation-state, that is the most valid unit of analysis. This book pays tribute to K.D. Ushinsky (1824-70), ‘the Russian pioneer of comparative education’, each chapter in it broadly in agreement with his conclusions that: Public education does not solve the problems of life by itself; it does not lead history; rather, it follows the historical development. It is not the pedagogies or the teachers who create the future, but the people themselves and their great men. Education only follows this road and, in combination with other public (social) factors, helps the individual and the rising generation on its way.

Author : Ben Eklof
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520344983

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Russian Peasant Schools by Ben Eklof Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Ben Eklof,Larry Eugene Holmes,Vera Kaplan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0714657050

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Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia by Ben Eklof,Larry Eugene Holmes,Vera Kaplan Pdf

A collection of essays which examine the reform of the educational system in post Soviet Russia in historical and comparative perspective.

Author : Wayne Dowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350101340

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A History of Education in Modern Russia by Wayne Dowler Pdf

A History of Education in Modern Russia is the first book to trace the significance of education in Russia from Peter the Great's reign all the way through to Vladimir Putin and the present day. Individual chapters open with an overview of the political, social, diplomatic and cultural environment of the period in order to orient the reader. Dowler then goes on to analyse the aims of education initiatives in each era before considering the ways in which Russians experienced education, both as students and as teachers. Each chapter concludes with an assessment of the outcomes and consequences of education policies in the period, both the successes and failures as well as the impact of education on the cultural, social, economic and ultimately political environments. The chronologically arranged book also traces and then summarises underlying key themes like the tension between an open system of education and an estate-based system; the push and pull between utility and the broader goal of human development; and the effects of centralized, authoritarian control that for much of the period limited local initiative and starved the regions of adequate resources.

Author : David Longley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882190

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Longman Companion to Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 by David Longley Pdf

This is the first book of its kind to draw together information on the major events in Russian history from 1695 to 1917 - covering the eventful period from the accession of Peter the Great to the fall of Nicholas II. Not only is a vast amount of material on key events and topics brought together, but the book also contains fascinating background material to convey the reality of life in the period.

Author : Christine Johanson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : 0773505652

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Women's Struggle for Higher Education in Russia, 1855-1900 by Christine Johanson Pdf

Women in nineteenth-century Russia had greater access to medical and higher education than any of their contemporaries in Europe. Women's Struggle for Higher Education in Russia explores the remarkable expansion and upgrading of women's education during the turbulent decades following the Crimean War.

Author : A. I. U. Polunov,Thomas C. Owen,L. G Zakharova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317460497

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Russia in the Nineteenth Century by A. I. U. Polunov,Thomas C. Owen,L. G Zakharova Pdf

This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. Drawing on the latest Russian and Western historical scholarship, Alexander Polunov examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy. Polunov explains how the major social groups - the gentry, merchants, petty townspeople, peasants, and ethnic minorities - reacted to the Great Reforms, and why, despite the emergence of a civil society and capitalist institutions, a reformist, evolutionary path did not become an alternative to the Revolution of 1917. He provides detailed portraits of many tsarist bureaucrats and political reformers, complete with quotations from their writings, to explain how the principle of autocracy, although significantly weakened by the Great Reforms in mid-century, reasserted itself under the last two emperors. Polunov stresses the relevance, for Russians in the post-Soviet period, of issues that remained unresolved in the pre-Revolutionary period, such as the question of private property in land and the relationship between state regulation and private initiative in the economy.

Author : Polunov
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0765630168

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Russia in the Nineteenth Century by Polunov Pdf

This is a comprehensive interpretive history of Russia from the defeat of Napoleon to the eve of World War I. It is the first such work by a post-Soviet Russian scholar to appear in English. Drawing on the latest Russian and Western historical scholarship, Alexander Polunov examines the decay of the two central institutions of tsarist Russia: serfdom and autocracy. Polunov explains how the major social groups - the gentry, merchants, petty townspeople, peasants, and ethnic minorities - reacted to the Great Reforms, and why, despite the emergence of a civil society and capitalist institutions, a reformist, evolutionary path did not become an alternative to the Revolution of 1917. He provides detailed portraits of many tsarist bureaucrats and political reformers, complete with quotations from their writings, to explain how the principle of autocracy, although significantly weakened by the Great Reforms in mid-century, reasserted itself under the last two emperors. Polunov stresses the relevance, for Russians in the post-Soviet period, of issues that remained unresolved in the pre-Revolutionary period, such as the question of private property in land and the relationship between state regulation and private initiative in the economy.

Author : Dietrich Geyer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300105452

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Russian Imperialism by Dietrich Geyer Pdf

This book offers a fresh and stimulating analysis of the often elusive relationship between domestic and foreign policy in Russia before the First World War. Dietrich Geyer, one of Germany's leading historians of Russia, discusses a wide variety of economic, fiscal, institutional, and ideological developments within imperial Russia. In so doing, he brings into sharp relief the difficulties faced by the ruling elites in maintaining Russia's great power position in Europe, the Near East, and the Far East. Now available in English for the first time, this widely acclaimed book will be welcomed as an indispensable resource by all those who were unable to read the original German edition. "By far the most perceptive, knowledgeable, and intelligent work on the last half century of imperial Russia in print." -Theodore H. Von Laue, Russian History "This important, tightly packed book... analyzes the basic problems of Russian imperialism thoroughly and with enormous erudition.... Scholars concerned with imperialism and Russian domestic and foreign problems will welcome this thought-provoking work." -David MacKenzie, American Historical Review "A convincing and important analysis of the mutual dependence of autocratic domestic and foreign politics.... This book ought to be the occasion for a renewed and wide discussion of Russian imperialism and should give rise to further studies of the question." -Alan Kimball, Slavic Review "This is a remarkably good book. Good in many respects--quality of research and writing, breadth of view, command of the facts, balance and penetration in judgment, familiarity with relevant theory.... The book represents a revived and deepened historicism." -Paul W. Schroeder, Journal of Modern History

Author : Raymond Pearson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 0719017343

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Russia and Eastern Europe, 1789-1985 by Raymond Pearson Pdf

Author : ChaeRan Y. Freeze,Jay M. Harris
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611684551

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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia by ChaeRan Y. Freeze,Jay M. Harris Pdf

This book makes accessibleÑfor the first time in EnglishÑdeclassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation among and between neighbors, society, and the Russian state, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I. Focusing on religion, family, health, sexuality, work, and politics, these documents provide an intimate portrait of the rich diversity of Jewish life. By personalizing collective experience through individual life storiesÑreflecting not only the typical but also the extraordinaryÑthe sources reveal the tensions and ruptures in a vanished society. An introductory survey of Russian Jewish history from the Polish partitions (1772Ð1795) to World War I combines with prefatory remarks, textual annotations, and a bibliography of suggested readings to provide a new perspective on the history of the Jews of Russia.

Author : James C. Albisetti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400853083

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Secondary School Reform in Imperial Germany by James C. Albisetti Pdf

James C. Albisetti explores the wide-ranging debate in Imperial Germany over the reform of secondary education to meet the new demands posed by unification, industrialization, and urbanization. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.