ABSTRACT
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 a 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 further the marketization concept. 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|28 pages
Marketization in focus
chapter 1|14 pages
Russia in transition — University in change
part II|28 pages
Marketizing the Russian University: key points
chapter 3|10 pages
Diffusion of market ideology and its impact
chapter 4|16 pages
To market, to market — but how?
part III|78 pages
Russian State University adapts to market conditions
chapter 5|19 pages
Marketization and missions of BSTU
chapter 6|26 pages
Marketization and university functioning
chapter 7|21 pages
Marketization and ideological change?
chapter 8|10 pages
Yin and yang of marketization
part IV|22 pages
Novelty in marketization of the University
chapter 9|10 pages
Lessons to be learned from the Russian case
chapter 10|10 pages
Explaining Russian University marketization
part V|15 pages
What is new? What is next?