The article analyzes the reforms in higher education in the 1920s and 30s based on the experience of the Tomsk State University. It is in this period that the Soviet authorities, together with the faculty, searched for the optimal model of higher education. This included determining which...

The article considers the problems of the emergence of Masters programs in Russia. If gives a brief historical review of approaches to the organization of such programs as they existed from the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The author describes the features of Russian...

Compiled by E.N. Penskaya

The article presents the modern views on the crucial role of career counseling in forming the professional and personal choices of an individual. The author touches upon historical and cultural realities that influence career counseling in the West, and analyzes the psychological reasons for the...

The article describes the phenomenon of the Russian grammar school abroad in the period between the two World Wars. It details the emergence, development and decay of grammar schools during the "first wave" of the Russian emigration.

Compiled by M.N. Melnikova.

The author analyzes the positions of the Peoples Comissariat of Education of Soviet Russia (the Bolshevik Education Ministry) and of the Public Education Ministry of Kolchaks government during the Civil War in Russia. These positions are analyzed in the context of their connection with the...

Dmitry Andreevich Tolstoy (1823-1889) was a government figure and, according to his contemporaries, one of most interesting and paradoxical persons of his time. His tenure as minister of public education for almost a decade and a halfstill raises controversy. Since the mid 1860-s D.A. Tolstoy...