The Critical Movement Against the 2010–2012 Education Reform in Russia: Networks, Organisations and Parties

Mikkel Berg-Nordlie and Nikita Bolshakov

Europe-Asia Studies, 2018, vol. 70, issue 4, 666-684

Abstract: In 2010, Russian authorities presented a new draft law on education, which immediately became controversial. The essay examines whether user groups (parents) and low-ranking sector employees (teachers) were active in the movement critical of the reform, and how the state responded to the anti-reform movement. The movement consisted of several networks and organisations with no central node. It included teachers, parents and activists from both non-systemic groups and systemic opposition parties. Pressure from below by networks and organisations was combined with pressure from actors situated above in the political system, that is, in the Duma. Since the movement was welfare-oriented rather than fundamentally regime-critical, the Russian authorities tolerated open criticism both from civil society and inside the Duma. Some gains for teachers were won, but the movement’s proposed amendments and demands were generally rejected or only introduced in revised form.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1471450

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