Specificity of the Master's Degree Program Development in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

Abstract

The reform of the modern system of education and scientific certification is based, to greater extent, on economic conditions, as well as on global trends that cumulatively represent challenges to which Russia cannot but react. However, normative consolidation of new legal structures within the educational system is very much similar to what has already existed in our country. An introduction of the three-level higher education showed its weaknesses in several aspects, which, in turn, needs further reflection and further improvement in the organization of education at different levels. It is precisely the emergence of a relatively new intermediate, i.e. Master's Degree Program, that seems to be the most controversial issue and in order to resolve it we have turned to our domestic historical experience in this paper.