ABSTRACT
Unlike HSE, which is a small young university with a distinctly pro-Western orientation, Moscow State is the largest and oldest university in the country and an exemplar of the Soviet academic institution 1 . With its strong scholarly reputation, the MSU Economic Faculty is HSE’s main rival. However, in contrast to HSE, MSU did not reject Soviet traditions but used them as a foundation for new programs in economics. Presenting the MSU case in this chapter, I replicate the structure of the previous chapter: the first part consists of an official account of MSU events, the second part examines stories and assumptions extracted from MSU interviews, while the third one offers a MSU case analysis.
