ABSTRACT
The venerable old building located on Chistoprudnyi Boulevard underwent a name change: the Ministry of Enlightenment became the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR. Edward Dneprov brought with him to the ministry a group of individuals who had played an active role in drawing up the new strategy for education. Among them were teachers who had moved up various rungs of the administrative ladder, as well as scholars: educational specialists, sociologists and historians. In Moscow, when prefects and municipalities were created to replace the old soviet institutions, the Moscow Education Committee, headed by RSFSR Deputy Minister of Education L. Kszina, was ready to link up with this reform process. The March 1991 All-Russian Education Conference approved the program worked up by the Ministry of Education for stabilization and growth in education during the transition period, a program calculated for a two-year period.
