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Education for Social Transformation: Soviet University Education Aid in the Cold War Capitalist World-System
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Griffiths, Tom G.; Charon Cardona, Euridice – European Education, 2015
International education is seen as an effective form of soft power. This article reviews one of history's largest and most ambitious attempts to achieve global influence through university education, and to reshape the world--the Soviet university aid program, 1956-91. Drawing on existing research and Soviet archival materials, we lay out and…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Educational History, International Education