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03235aam a2200397 i 4500 001 43FF1F72D37711ED83DD52344BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230405010043 008 220222s2022 enkab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022933338 020 $a 0192849840 020 $a 9780192849847 035 $a (OCoLC)1319649980 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SNN $d PUL $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a LA838 C48 2022 100 1 $a Chankseliani, Maia, $e author. 245 10 $a What happened to the Soviet university? / $c Maia Chankseliani. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xiv, 193 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a History of universities 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-190) and index. 520 3 $a This monograph explores how one of the largest geopolitical changes of the twentieth century-the dissolution of the Soviet Union-triggered and inspired the reconfiguration of the Soviet university. The reader is invited to engage in a historical and sociological sensemaking of radical and incremental changes affecting 69 former Soviet universities since the early 1990s. The monograph departs from traditional deficit-oriented, internalist explanations of change and illustrates how global flows of ideas, people, and finances have impacted higher education transformations in this region. It also identifies areas of persistence. The processes of marketisation, internationalisation, and academic liberation are analysed to show that universities have maintained certain traditions while adopting and internalising new ways of fulfilling their education and research functions. Soviet universities have survived chaotic processes of post-Soviet transformations and have self-stabilised with time. Most of them remain flagship institutions with large numbers of students and relatively high research productivity. At the same time, the majority of these universities operate in a top-down, one-man management environment with limited institutional autonomy and academic freedom. As the homes of intellectuals, universities represent a duality of opportunity and threat. Universities can nurture collective possibilities, imagining and bringing about a different future. At the same time, or perhaps because of this, the probability is high that universities will continue to be perceived as threats to governments with authoritarian inclinations. One message to take away from this monograph is that the time is ripe for former Soviet universities to loosen their last remaining chains. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z Soviet Union $x History. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z Russia (Federation) $x History. 650 0 $a Universities and colleges $z Soviet Union $x History. 650 0 $a Universities and colleges $z Russia (Federation) $x History. 650 0 $a Post-communism $z Russia (Federation) 830 0 $a History of universities. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031700.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405011645.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=43FF1F72D37711ED83DD52344BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search