Before Massification: Access to University Education in Ukraine in 1950s-1980s

• Authors: Sergiy Kurbatov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

My paper sets to analyze the Soviet policy on access to higher education during the last four decades of existence of the USSR, with a particular focus on the Ukrainian case. It includes the analysis of discourses on planned economy and central regulations regarding access to universities, and a discussion on official and unofficial benefits (Russian original ‘blat’) during the admission process. The findings led to the conclusion that the number of students, which increased four point four times between 1950 and 1990, was less significant per 100,000 people; thus, generally speaking, access to university education continued to be rather restrictive in social terms. This was one of the main causes of the slow development of Soviet Ukraine in scientific and technological areas.

Keywords

EN

students; university; access to education; benefits; planned economy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 75-86

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Sergiy Kurbatov

• Institute of Higher Education, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2014-0012