The paper provides a historical reconstruction of social analysis of Soviet and post-
Soviet education. The author criticises the dominant Western and Russian approaches to the processes of social transformation of higher education. It is argued that understanding of the post-Soviet transformation as linear modernisation is untenable.
Key words: education, post-Soviet area, transformation, globalisation, modernisation.
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