LEADER 03139oam 2200553 c 450 001 9910956003103321 005 20260102090118.0 010 $a3-8382-7519-5 024 3 $a9783838275192 035 $a(CKB)4100000011611255 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6406032 035 $a(ibidem)9783838275192 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011611255 100 $a20260102d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a?Optimizing? Higher Education in Russia $eUniversity Teachers and their Union Universitetskaya solidarnost? /$fDavid Mandel, Andreas Umland 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (171 pages) 225 0 $aSoviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society$v225 330 $aIn 2012, soon after his election to a third presidential term as president, following a four-year stint as prime minister (to avoid modifying the constitution), and in the wake of an unprecedented wave of popular protests, Vladimir Putin issued his ?May Decrees.? Notable among them was the government?s commitment to increase the salaries of doctors, scientific researchers and university teachers to double the average in their respective regions by 2018. But then on December 30 of that year, the government issued a ?road map? for education, revealing that the salary increases in higher education would be paid for, not by significant new government funding, but by ?optimization,? which would eliminate 44% of the current teaching positions in higher education. This was justified in part by a forecasted drop in student enrollment. Thus opened a new, accelerated period of reform of higher education. David Mandel examines the impact of these reforms on the condition of Russia?s university teachers and the collective efforts of some teachers, a small minority, to organize themselves in an independent trade union to defend their professional interests and their vision of higher education. Apart from the subject?s intrinsic interest, an in-depth examination of this specific aspect of social policy provides valuable insight into the nature of the Russian state as well as into the condition of ?civil society,? in particular the popular classes, to which Russian university teachers belong according to their socio-economic situation, if not necessarily their self-image. 606 $aHigher Education 606 $aUniversity 606 $aRussia 606 $aUniversität 606 $aRussland 606 $aProfessoren 606 $aBildung 615 4$aHigher Education 615 4$aUniversity 615 4$aRussia 615 4$aUniversität 615 4$aRussland 615 4$aProfessoren 615 4$aBildung 676 $a378.47 700 $aMandel$b David$4aut$0126193 702 $aUmland$b Andreas$4edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956003103321 996 $a"Optimizing" Higher Education in Russia$94413879 997 $aUNINA