Synopses & Reviews
Education is a key area for knowledge-based, globalizing economies. Economies depend on education not only for the diffusion of knowledge and learning of new techniques, but also for long-term poverty reduction and improved health. This book develops a new approach for measuring the social
benefits of education and finding more cost-effective policies.
Review
"A superb volume in which Riasanovsky brings a lifetime of study to bear on the puzzling question of what it means to be RussianIt will surely take its place on the required reading lists of graduate students in the field."--Jack M. Lauber, History: Reviews of New Books
"The author has cast his net here impressively wide, and gives a full exegesis of his materials, with copious quotations....A fine study of a fascinating theme."--History: Reviews of New Books
"No other historian has attempted to bring together such voluminous or varied material and presented it so clearly."--The Historian
"Riasanovsky's total mastery of the subject and of literature is evident on every page."--The Russian Review
"Admirable and authoritative."--Times Literary Supplement
"This is intellectual history in the best old-fashioned sense of the world....Riasanovsky assembles a rich panorama of evidence, which he links firmly to the dominant intellectual currents of Russian though. Since one's attitude toward Peter can have the same programmatic content as one's stance on the Revolution in French history, this is a major and much-needed accomplishment."--Jahrbücher für Geschichte Europas