The Classroom and the Chancellery

Allen Sinel

Published by Harvard University Press 1973

The Classroom and the Chancellery

State Educational Reform in Russia under Count Dmitry Tolstoi

Allen Sinel

Volume 72 in the series Russian Research Center Studies

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674424913

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The specific challenge that confronted Count Dmitry Tolstoi as Minister of Education was to raise the educational level of the Russian people without giving them the intellectual weapons with which to threaten the autocracy. The efforts of Tolstoi's ministry to resolve this dilemma resulted in comprehensive reforms which shaped the Russian school system until early in the twentieth century.

It is interesting therefore that, until now, there has been no complete analysis of all aspects of Tolstoi's ministry. Allen Sinel's study fills that gap.

Beginning with the historical, political, biographical, and administrative contexts for Tolstoi's reforms, Sinel then provides a detailed examination of Tolstoi's transformation of Russian education at all levels, particularly the secondary level, which was the cornerstone of his program.

The ministry's greatest achievement in improving the school system was increasing the number of schools and supplying trained teachers to staff them. Less successful were Tolstoi's efforts to minimize the political consciousness of the students. Tolstoi's methods were short-sighted and negative, helping to create the very elements of alienation and antagonism that might destroy the existing regime he wanted so much to protect and preserve.

Sinel's analysis of Tolstoi's program, the most durable of the tsarist period, provides a much-needed survey of the Russian educational system at a crucial time in Russian history. In addition, the study contributes to a more balanced assessment of one of tsardom's most important bureaucrats.

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CHAPTER 1. The Dilemma of Education, and Ministerial Solutions to 1866 Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2.The Shaping o f a Bureaucrat Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	34
CHAPTER 3. The Ministry of Education: Its Structure and Authority Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	55
CHAPTER 4. Controlling Higher Education Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	85
CHAPTER 5. The Entrenchment of the Classical System in Secondary Education Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	130
CHAPTER 6. The Classical System in Practice Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	171
CHAPTER 7. Educating the Masses Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	214
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1973
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 335
Keywords: Education -- Soviet Union -- History.; Educational change -- Soviet Union -- History.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General; HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union; HISTORY / General

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Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674424913

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1973
ISBN: 9780674424876