" The book] succeeds remarkably in providing a multifaceted, yet interconnected, analysis of this signal era of modern Russian history and it is heartily recommended." --The Historian

This volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the Great Reforms during the reign of Alexander II and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them.

This book sums up one of the most profound educational reforms in modern Russian history. Rejecting the Soviet system of schooling, this reform engendered an array of new strategies of education. At the same time, the very fact of radically rejecting of the past, the attempt to start from the beginning, might be seen as a revitalization of an approach typical of previous generations of Russian educational reformers. The essays included in the volume compare current educational reform to the past, analyze it in the broader cultural, political and social context, and study the shifts that...

In the post-Soviet era, Russia has witnessed profound educational reform. This volume offers an assessment of the changes & how they have been implemented.