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Higher education systems around the world usually share one thing in common: path-dependency. Once a country’s higher education system finds a groove, it tends to stay there barring any major cataclysm. There’s one exception, though, and it’s a pretty big one: Russia. Over the past century and a bit, Russian universities have gone through a series of convulsions. Starting out as a network of mainly German-style elite universities prior to the first world war, the system was Sovietized and massified

This is the World of Higher Education podcast. I’m Tiffany MacLennan, one of the producers of the World of Higher Education Podcast, usually a Research Associate at HESA, but currently a full-time master’s student. About two years ago, I pitched the idea of a podcast to Alex to which he said no but after a lot of consistent begging, here we are at season 2 episode 19. So far, I would say we’ve had great success with this project. We