The Enterprisers
The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 June 2019
- ISBN 9780190845001
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 155x236x30 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 0
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Short description:
Fedyukin draws on a wealth of unpublished archival sources to demonstrate that the evolution of "modern" schools in Russia under Peter I and his successors was driven not by the omnipresent monarch or the impersonal state, but rather by the efforts of "administrative entrepreneurs" seeking to advance their own agendas.
MoreLong description:
The Enterprisers traces the emergence of the "modern" school in Russia during the reigns of Peter I and his immediate successors, up to the accession of Catherine II. Creation of the new, secular, technically-oriented schools based on the imported Western European blueprints is traditionally presented as the key element in Peter I's transformation of Russia.
The tsar, it is assumed, needed schools to train officers and engineers for his new army and the navy, and so he personally designed these new institutions and forced them upon his unwilling subjects. In this sense, school also stands in as a metaphor for modern institutions in Russia in general, which are likewise seen as created from the top down, by the forceful state, in response to its military and technological needs.
Yet, in reality, Peter I himself never wrote much about education, and while he championed "learning" in a broad sense, he had remarkably little to say about the ways schools and schooling should be organized. Nor were his general and admirals, including foreigners in Russian service, keen on promoting formal schooling: for them, practical apprenticeship still remained the preferred method of training.
Rather, as Fedyukin argues in this book, the trajectories of institutional change were determined by the efforts of "administrative entrepreneurs"-or projecteurs, as they were also called-who built new schools as they sought to achieve diverse career goals, promoted their own pet ideas, advanced their claims for expertise, and competed for status and resources. By drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival sources, Fedyukin explores the "micropolitics" behind the key episodes of educational innovation in the first half of the eighteenth century and offers an entirely new way of thinking about "Petrine revolution" and about the early modern state in Russia.
Through massive archival research and lively narration, Fedyukin enhances the abstract structuralist accounts of social historians and takes the reader on an illuminating journey into the activities and personalities that made up the Russian government during decades of unprecedented reform activity.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Monks, Masters, and Missionaries: From "Teachership" to Schools in Late Muscovy
Chapter 2: The Navigation School and the "Profit-Maker"
Chapter 3: The Naval Academy and the "Imposter Baron Without Any Diploma"
Chapter 4: The Naval Schools and Peter I's Grand Reglaments, 1710s-1730s
Chapter 5: The Noble Cadet Corps and the Pietist Field Marshal, 1730s
Chapter 6: The Fops, the Courtiers, the Favorites, and other Reformers of the Service Schools, 1740s- 1760s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
