title: The First Soviet Sputnik as an Impetus to the Reform of American Education: On the 60th Anniversary of this Historic Event
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metadata.value: Krymskaya, A. S.
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metadata.value: 2017-10-28T16:59:54Z
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metadata.value: 2017-10-28T16:59:54Z
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metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Krymskaya A. S. The First Soviet Sputnik as an Impetus to the Reform of American Education: On the 60th Anniversary of this Historic Event, Modern History of Russia, no. 3, 2017, pp. 209–222.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2017.315
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8661
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metadata.value: The Soviet Union’s October 1957 launching of Sputnik was of domestic political importance to the
  US. It led to a review of the US education system, which resulted in the adoption of the National Defense Education
  Act by the US Congress in 1958. Its purpose was to strengthen the national defense by appropriating
  federal financial support to increase the number of educational programs responding to critical national needs.
  Discussion of Sputnik’s influence on the reform of American education has continued for 60 years. In the scientific
  and journalistic literature various arguments have been advanced for and against satellite’s influence, which
  are discussed in this article. It attempts to show the satellite’s impact on accelerating negotiations for exchange
  agreements between the USSR and the USA in the fields of culture, technology and education, and ultimately
  creating a new branch of American historical scholarship — Russian Studies. Particular attention is paid to the
  content of Section VI of the NDEA. It provided financial support to higher education institutions that established
  or already had in place modern foreign languages centers. The results of the implementation of this paragraph
  were evident in the same year, as universities in different states began establishing Russian and East European
  Studies Centers. It became the starting point for a new stage in the development of Soviet-American relations in
  the field of science and education.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Issue 3(20)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Sputnik
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: National Defense Education Act
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USA
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: academic exchange
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: American education
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian and East European studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: The First Soviet Sputnik as an Impetus to the Reform of American Education: On the 60th Anniversary of this Historic Event
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metadata.value: Article
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