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Fedyukin draws on a wealth of unpublished archival sources to demonstrate that the evolution of "modern" schools in Russia under Peter I and his successors was driven not by the omnipresent monarch or the impersonal state, but rather by the efforts of "administrative entrepreneurs" seeking to advance their own agendas.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Monks, Masters, and Missionaries: From "Teachership" to Schools in Late Muscovy
- Chapter 2: The Navigation School and the "Profit-Maker"
- Chapter 3: The Naval Academy and the "Imposter Baron Without Any Diploma"
- Chapter 4: The Naval Schools and Peter I's Grand Reglaments, 1710s-1730s
- Chapter 5: The Noble Cadet Corps and the Pietist Field Marshal, 1730s
- Chapter 6: The Fops, the Courtiers, the Favorites, and other Reformers of the Service Schools, 1740s- 1760s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Igor Fedyukin is Associate Professor and the founding director of the Center for Imperial Russian History at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He has been a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC) and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). In 2012-2013 he served as a vice-minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
Summary
Fedyukin draws on a wealth of unpublished archival sources to demonstrate that the evolution of "modern" schools in Russia under Peter I and his successors was driven not by the omnipresent monarch or the impersonal state, but rather by the efforts of "administrative entrepreneurs" seeking to advance their own agendas.
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Through massive archival research and lively narration, Fedyukin enhances the abstract structuralist accounts of social historians and takes the reader on an illuminating journey into the activities and personalities that made up the Russian government during decades of unprecedented reform activity.
