Ways of overcoming university education crisis at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1930s

Abstract

The article investigates the process of reforming
higher education and postgraduate courses in
the USSR in 1930s. The author determines signs of a
university education crisis during the investigated period
by example of the MSU. Special attention has been paid
to the means of overcoming the crisis in the MSU. On
the one hand the paper analyzes the measures taken by
the university administration to provide stabilization of
educational and scientific conditions. On the other hand
it considers the key aspects of the state educational
policy that promoted the development of the Moscow
State University and contributed to the formation of the
Soviet model of university education system.