Describes changes that are occurring in Russia with regard to the treatment of students with disabilities, those at risk, or who are juvenile delinquents. The need for an interdisciplinary and interagency model of service delivery to meet the needs of persons with disabilities and to prevent increases in crime is proposed. (CR)

Discusses the popularity of Spanish Golden Age drama presented in printed form and stage productions in Russia during the reigns of Alexander I (1801-1825) and Nicholas I (1825-1855). Attributes the apparent widespread interest in Hispanic culture to common ideals shared during the Napoleonic wars. (DS)

The author offers 12 suggestions for special educators visiting schools and agencies for the handicapped in the Soviet Union. A bibliography of 61 references is provided, including 55 citations on special education in Russia. (CL)

Examines how Soviet economic planners and policymakers cope with the geographic dichotomy of a concentration of population and economic activity in European Russia and the concentration of natural resources in sparsely populated Siberia. (Author/DB)

This article treats the Sunday School Movement, developed in Russia between 1859 and 1862, from the standpoint of the various social groupings - their aspirations, educational theories and their position in the social hierarchy. (Editor/RK)

Describes a program at Tomsk State University in Russia to incorporate more active, student-driven teaching methods. Discusses the difficulties and successes experienced by both teachers and students with the new mode of instruction. (EV)

The superfluous man became a prominent literary figure in Russia during the 19th century. This article makes a comparison of the superfluous experience to the "celebutante" phenomenon, as reflected in the media. It also includes a discussion on the impact that the celebutante influence may have on the dreams, values and meaning-making…

Over the past several decades, interest in and attention to the concept of citizenship and citizenship education has increased throughout Europe. An insightful observer might distinguish two interlinked discourses in the arguments around citizenship. One, that the political citizenship mostly related to the functioning of representative democracy…

This article discusses the history, methodology, and assessment of giftedness by Russian psychologists from the 1920s through the present. The review indicates that because of the ban on psychometric testing, a powerful theoretical tradition emerged and continues and that Russia tends to a multifaceted definition of giftedness. (Contains extensive…

Alexander Pushkin, Russia's most celebrated literary figure, descended from an African slave. On both parents' sides, he was related to Avram Petrovich Gannibal, who was born to an African prince and abducted to become a slave to a Russian diplomat. Pushkin chose to pride himself on both his aristocratic life and his African ancestry. (SM)

Discusses the events that lead up to the creation of higher education in Russia, such as the development of a school of mathematics and navigation science, garrison and admirality schools, the Rostov School, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Explains that higher education institutions were originally created in order to train…

In the final decades of the twentieth century there was a considerable increase in the scale of religious education in Russia. Inasmuch as the targets of influence of religious institutions are citizens of Russia who profess a particular religion, the activities of the institutions have to be carried out on the basis of laws in force in Russia, in…

Peter I's editorial policy appears as a starting point in the birth of secular Russian textbooks. Since the printing production was then organized on a massive scale as a response to the needs of European-like modernization, it should be safely suggested that nearly "all" books produced during this pioneering period focused teaching…

The author examines sex education in schools, deviant sexuality and contraceptive use in the Soviet Union, and compares the sexual standards in Russia to those in the United States at the turn of the century. (MJB)

In his remarkable treatise Reflexes of the Brain (1863) Sechenov developed a detailed program which, properly evaluated, laid the foundation for an objective science of psychology not only in Russia but on a world scale. (Author)