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1 online resource |
Contents |
The red door slowly opens -- The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! -- Entering the Soviet heartland -- Getting started -- Surviving the coup -- Meeting with Gorbachev and the KGB -- Reading Russia right -- Seizing the initiative -- Laying the foundation in Russia -- Learning together and telling the truth -- A new way to educate -- Russia's generation Nyet -- Assembling RACU's building blocks -- Birthing in chaos: The first five years -- Stability bears fruit -- Terrorism, economic collapse, and growing opposition -- The struggle for survival -- Changing course -- Lessons and legacies -- Appendices: Historic milestones in RACU's development (1990-2016) -- RACU's board of trustees -- RACU's board of advisers -- RACU/RAI provosts -- RACU's faculty and staff (American and Russian).61020Russian-American Christian University |
Summary |
After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the U.S seized the opportunity to help build a faith-based university in Moscow. Told by the school's founder and president, this is the story of the rise and fall of the first accredited Christian liberal arts university in Russia's history, offering unique insight on Russia's post-communist transition and the construction of a cultural-educational bridge between the two superpowers |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Russian-American Christian University
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Education, Higher -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Christian universities and colleges -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Religion.
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religion (discipline)
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Education, Higher
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Christian universities and colleges
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Religion
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Russia (Federation)
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780830865178 |
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0830865179 |
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