Abstract
Igor Fedyukin, The Enterprisers: The Politics of School in Early Modern Russia, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2019; 328p. ISBN: 9780190845001.
Highlights
The subject of education has long been associated with the Petrine Revolution, wherein the creation of “modern” schools in this period was part of the great reforming tsar’s efforts to drag/push Russia forwards
Fedyukin has researched and written extensively about this topic for almost two decades, with a dozen or so articles and chapters devoted to specific individuals, institutions and themes, as well as several edited collections of related materials. He is able to draw on a very wide-ranging and detailed knowledge of both the subject matter and its historiography. This monograph represents something of a capstone achievement for this endeavor and makes a significant contribution to the ongoing revisionist approach to the historiography on policy-making and institutional change in early modern Russia
Fedyukin is interested in the role of what he terms “administrative entrepreneurs” in establishing and developing projects that resulted in the creation of “new” institutions, or institutional change for those already in Keenan, “Mavens, Mavericks, and Managers”
Summary
The subject of education has long been associated with the Petrine Revolution, wherein the creation of “modern” schools in this period was part of the great reforming tsar’s efforts to drag/push Russia forwards. Fedyukin takes this approach to the development of schools – and, by extension, educational institutions and policies more generally – in Russia, arguing that the process of innovation and change in this period was driven largely by the efforts of individual “enterprisers,” rather than as a result of the direct intervention of the ruler or state bodies.
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