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

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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 The low level of students’ political engagement can rather be attributed to the outdated structures of student representation, inherited from the Soviet period.

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  • Igor Chirikov, 2016. "Do Russian research universities have a secret mission? a response to Forrat," Post-Soviet Affairs, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(4), pages 338-344, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpsaxx:v:32:y:2016:i:4:p:338-344
    DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2015.1083160
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