Abstract
A number of different university rankings have been established in the Russian Federation. If one looks at the top 10 institutions (among 1,600 Russian universities) in these rankings, the lists are almost identical. Moreover, they do not change over time, with one exception. One university that did not exist 20 years ago now appears in the top 10 in all rankings—the Higher School of Economics (HSE). How could a small school established in 1992 (the year of the lowest Russian gross domestic product [GDP] per capita in many years) become a member of the elite group of the best Russian universities? Another question arises regarding new publications by HSE professors in international journals and at their presentations at major international conferences. How could a group of economists and sociologists trained in a Soviet-style Marxian political economy and in such an exotic discipline as “scientific communism,” under tight ideological control,
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