Do Russian research universities have a secret mission? a response to Forrat

Igor Chirikov

Post-Soviet Affairs, 2016, vol. 32, issue 4, 338-344

Abstract: This paper challenges the central claim of Natalia Forrat’s article that university support programs under Putin targeted the suppression of anti-regime student mobilization. Empirical evidence, both on the national-policy level and on the level of higher education institutions, suggests that the government introduced support programs in order to establish a research capacity at Russian flagship universities and to develop a more competitive national science system. The low level of students’ political engagement can rather be attributed to the outdated structures of student representation, inherited from the Soviet period.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2015.1083160

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