Education for Decline: Soviet Vocational and Technical Schooling from Khrushchev to Gorbachev

by Dennis Soltys

Perestroika - economic and political reform - is what the world associated with Mikhail Gorbachev when he led the USSR. There were, however, some political scientists in the West who saw Gorbachevism as a time of conservatism, not of radical change.

Dennis Soltys confirms the latter view in this study of educational policy and institutions in the former Soviet Union. Focusing on vocational and technical schooling, Soltys reveals very...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802080340
• ISBN13: 9780802080349
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher