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Education for Decline: Soviet Vocational and Technical Schooling from Khrushchev to Gorbachev
ISBN: 9781487573973
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Vocational education -- Government policy -- Soviet Union; Technical education -- Government policy -- Soviet Union;

Soltys examines the role of ideas, institutions, and societal actors in the development of education policy, with emphasis on the period from 1981 to 1991. He demonstrates how poor conceptual design and institutional fragmentation damaged Soviet education at all levels.

DENNIS SOLTYS was an associate of the centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto and a visiting scholar at the Ukrainian Academy of State Administration, Kyiv. He is currently a Professor of Public and Municipal Administration at Kimep University, Khazakhstan.