STEPHEN WEBBER is Lecturer in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the author of School, Reform and Society in the New Russia and a number of other publications on aspects of the Russian education system. - ILKKA LIIKANEN works as a Researcher in Comparative Historical Sociology at the Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland. He is the author and co-editor of basic Finnish language textbooks on nation-building and political mobilization in Finland and is co-editor (with H.Eskelinen and J.Oksa of Curtains of Iron from Gold, a volume on changing European borders.

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.Webber & I.Liikanen PART I: REVIVING CIVIC CULTURE Reflections on Social Networks and Collective Action in Russia; R.Alapuro Educational and Political Capital and the Breakthrough of Voluntary Association in Russian Karelia; I.Liikanen The Intelligentsia and the 'Breakdown of Culture' in Post-Soviet Russia; P.Stranius PART II: NATIONALITY REFRAMED National Schools and National Identity In and After the Soviet Union; J.Smith Ethnic Minorities in the Czech Education System: Before and After Transition (1945-1997); D.Canek New Paradigms of National Education in Multi-Ethnic Russia; G.Schmidt PART III: IDENTITY MATTERS Ethnographical Activism as a Form of Civic Education: A Case Study on School Museums in North-West Russia; K.Heikkinen Gender Representation in Educational Materials in the Period of Transition in Hungary; E.Thun Gender Study and Civic Culture in Contemporary Russia; A.Temkina Hypocritical Sexuality of the Late Soviet Period: Sexual Knowledge and Sexual Ignorance; E.Zdravomyslova The Struggle for the Souls of Young People: Competing Approaches to 'Spiritual' and Religious Education in Russia Today; J.Muckle PART IV: TOWARDS A BRIGHTER FUTURE? The Abandoned Children of Russia: From 'Privileged Class' to 'Underclass'; S.Stephenson Psychological Development Programmes for Civil Society Building; D.Javakhishvili & N.Sarjveladze The Culture of the Russian School and the Teaching Profession: Prospects for Change; S.Webber Pedagogy in Transition: From Labour Training to Humanistic Technology Education in Russia; J.Pitt & M.Pavlova Political Aspects of Reforming the Higher Education System in Ukraine; L.Pivneva Civic Education for Russia: An Outsider's View; J.Vaillant Index

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