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The Russian school system should have an important role to play in the process of democratization and the revival and modernization of the economy in that country. Is it in a position to respond to this task? In this book an analysis is conducted of the attempts to reform the Russian school system in the 1990s, setting the progress made and problems encountered by the schools against the broader context of political, economical and social flux in Russia as a whole.

The vivid discussion on civil society in Eastern Europe that flourished during the late 1980s and early 1990s has faded somewhat, and been partly replaced by new attempts to conceptualize the nature of social change taking place in these countries. This book strives to continue and go beyond the civil society discourse by analyzing the inter-relationship between education and civic culture in post-communist countries. The volume offers detailed case studies, written by specialists from the region and from Western Europe and North America, examining everyday patterns of civic culture, the linkage between education and national identity, ethnicity, gender and religion, the experience and attitudes of youth and attempts to render education systems better suited to the demands of post-communist society.