Democracy In The Russian School

Ben Eklof is Professor of History and Education at Indiana University and Director of the Institute for the Study of Russian Education, as well as editor of Khronika: Chronicle of Education in Russia and Eurasia. Among his books are Russian Peasant Schools (1986), Soviet Briefing (1989), School and Society in Tsarist and Soviet Russia (ed., 1993), Democracy in the Russian School (ed., 1993), Russia's Great Reforms, 1855-1881 (ed.,1994), The World of the Russian Peasant (ed., 1990). Recently, he edited the two volume English language translation of Boris Mironov's acclaimed Social History of Imperial Russia, 1700-1917. Prof. Eklof continues to work on a volume on the daily life of the Russian school before the Revolution, and to publish on education in the post-Soviet era.

• Democracy in the Russian School: Educational Reform Since 1984 -- Here’s Wishing You Well, Comrade Minister! -- The Educational System Under Fire -- Bureaucratic Tyranny (Must Be Eliminated from the School) -- Faith in the Teacher: The Energy of Renewal for the School -- Learning to Teach -- The Yardstick of History -- Who Will Restructure the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, and in What Direction? -- The VNIK Program -- The Fourth Reform: Polemical Notes on a History of the Present -- A Concept of General (Secondary) Education -- You Won’t Get Anywhere on the Sidelines -- Vseobuch: A General Secondary Education for All --from Illusion to Reality -- Dneprov’s Principles -- The Russian School: A New Era? -- One Hundred Days, and a Lifetime -- "Power Was Dumped in Our Laps": What Happens to the Former Opposition When It Ends up in the Corridors of Power -- The Opposition in Power -- The Attack on the Minister -- Decree No. 1 of the President of the Russian Federation: On Priority Measures to Promote Education -- Al’ternativa -- The State of Education in Russia Today -- The Educational System of the Russian Federation -- The Law of the Russian Federation on Education (Draft)