The Collapse Of The Soviet Union Before And After The Russian Higher Education Reform

As we know, the Soviet Union was the first socialist country in the world, and either its establishment or the disintegration had a great influence on the whole world. In the light of the reform and effort for many years, the higher education in the Soviet Union reached quite a high level. Since the end of the year 1991 when the Soviet Union was disintegrated, the Russia, who had its own system, inherited most of the dominion of the pre- Soviet Union, thus made the Russia become a dominant country who completely distinguished than before in the field of politics, economic and military etc. It has experienced eight years of upheaval and crisis. During the eight years, the development of the higher education in Russia experienced a grave revolution as well. In this paper, the author gave a comparative all-round realization on the problems of the history, the present, the existence and the trend of development of the reform of the higher education in Russia, showing and analyzing the general conditions of the reform and development of the higher education in Russia and in Soviet Union, comparatively studying the reform and development of the higher education fore and after the disintegration, cooperating the undergoing reforms in higher education of our country, supplied some experiences and enlightenments from which one could draw lessons. This paper includes the following four parts: 1) The higher educational reform before the disintegration of the Soviet Union; 2) The higher educational reform after the disintegration of the Soviet Union; 3) The comparison of higher education fore and after the disintegration of the Soviet Union; 4) The experiences and enlightenments could be learned.