When the Soviet Union collapsed universities were freed from state
control and left to themselves. This forced universities to be much
more market-oriented. This book explores this transformation from
the end of the Soviet Union until the present. Based on extensive
original research, the book charts the struggles of universities,
showing how chaos and decline came to what had been one of the
triumphs of the Soviet Union - a higher education system which
provided a high standard of advanced education to large numbers of
people and made major research achievements. The book shows how a
lack of funds, lack of commercial experience and the ending of
former means of support such as strong university-state industry
links brought about huge disruption; how universities responded
with a range of measures such as charging for tutoring and
examinations, handling research on a commercial basis and new forms
of co-operation; and how all this impacted on subjects of study and
on underlying ideas about what a university is for. The book argues
that the shock to the system in Russia was so severe that the
Russian case serves as an excellent 'survival guide' to
universities experiencing similar changes in other parts of the
world. By investigating the phenomenon of Russian universities
becoming more market-oriented the book contributes to developing
further the marketization concept. It summarizes the existing
knowledge in this field of study, offers a new framework for
analysis of the phenomenon of university marketization and
discusses the marketization of Russian universities in the light of
comparative studies.
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