The author discusses needed improvements in the university training of Russian economists. (Author/RM)

The author discusses ways to improve the training of economists at the university level. (Author/RM)

The Soviet Union's plan to increase the economic knowledge of 90 million workers through courses taught while on the job is described. (DE)

Explains that professional economic education in Russia will require a refurbishing of the scientific, methodological, and educative foundations of education and an accelerated development of economic institutes and departments. (Author/AV)

Analysis of the structure and contribution to the training of highly skilled specialists for the national economy and state management by the U.S.S.R. Financial and Economic Institute for Distance Education includes distance teaching methods, use of media, and proposals for the future of distance education in the U.S.S.R. (MBR)

Explains a computer simulation on post-revolutionary Russia in which students must make decisions in order to retain power and improve the economy. Decision areas include improving agricultural productivity, increasing industrial productivity, and establishing the production of consumer goods. (LS)

Reviews developments in economic education, economic research, and management training in the former Soviet Union since 1985. Contends that the demise of the Soviet command economy has left economics education in a shambles. Concludes that management training is blooming in the first stages of capitalism and will be a base for the renewal of…

Reports on a survey of 32 colleges and universities on changes in undergraduate comparative economic programs since the collapse of the Soviet Union and centralized socialism. Finds that most institutions maintained the course with significant modifications in course content and approach. (CFR)

Reports on a three-week seminar taught by U.S. economists at Moscow State University (Russia) in June 1992. Discusses the history of the pre-1992 economics curriculum and the emerging curriculum in modern Russia. Includes three tables illustrating changing curriculum content in economics over the past two decades. (CFR)

This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…