From Marx to Markets: Reform of the University Economics Curriculum in Russia

Internationalization of Post-Soviet Economists: Evidence from Central Asia and the Caucasus

“…Even though, Russian language has lost considerable ground as a result of these policies, it is still important and 'lingua franca' of the region (Nixey, 2012) vi Unless otherwise mentioned, all information about economics education in the Soviet era is based on Alexeev, Gaddy, and Leitzel (1992). vii S ee also Brue and MacPhee (1995) viii Leonid Kantorovich shared the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Tjalling Koopmans in 1975. ix Even if the 52 articles published in APE are ignored, the number is still above 20 (see below). x Because of geographic proximity, economic opportunities, ethnic and cultural ties, former socialist countries in Europe attracted earlier attention of the Western academics.…”

Engineering a Business School in a Former Soviet-Era Closed City: The Case of Omsk, Siberia

“…The development of these courses was largely influenced by earlier works by Stanislav Menshikov, policy papers by Yegor Gaidar and translated in the Soviet period textbooks, in particular, a macroeconomic text by a French economist Lionel Stoleru. Very soon, a number of new and very useful translations appeared, including texts by McConnell and Brue (Brue & MacPhee, 1995), Pindyck and Rubenfield, and Gregory Mankiw. In 1992-93, the development of new courses in the school was partly supported by grants from the Government of Omsk Region and the Open Society Institute.…”

“…The immediate social contexts for this study are presented in the literature dealing with the historical developments of Siberia and Omsk (Dostoyevsky, 1965;Lincoln, 1994;Malykhin & Chukhlomin, 1991;Naumov, 2006;Remnev, 2003;Unterberger, 1957;Zaslavskaya, 1984) and post-Soviet transitions (Aganbegyan, 1994: Alsund, 1995Brade & Rudolph, 2004;Melvin, 1998;Shelley, 1995), Soviet-era closed cities and their mentality (Brown, 2010;Gentile, 2004;Mikheyev, 1987), pre-and post-reformist Russian higher and secondary education issues as described in Western journals (Bain, 2003;Eklof, Holmes & Kaplan, 2005;Elliott & Tudge, 2007;Jarvis, Kondrashova, Efendiev & Tukhvatullin, 2005;Kitaev, 1994;Naumova, 1998;Smolentseva, 2003;Sharygin, 2002;Zajda, 2007) and those translated from Russian (Egorshin, Abliazova & Gus'kova, 2007;Lisauskene, 2006;Moiseeva, 2005;Prokopenko & Baksheeva, 2008;Shabanova, 2010), the development of Western-oriented business education in Russia (Chukhlomin, 2009;2004b;Judge et al, 2004;Puffer, 1993), transitional problems in teaching Western business concepts to Russian students (Brower, 2006;Brue & MacPhee, 1995;Chadraba & O'Keefe, 2007;Jacobs, 2001;Schellenber...…”