EMERGENCE OF PRIVATE HIGHEREDUCATION IN RUSSIA in the early XXcentury
The paper deals with the lesser known aspects of the emergence and development of private higher education in Russia. The authors study the basic principles of operation and the main lines of the evolution of non-state highereducation in the context of the specific historical conditions of the early XX century. The authors examine national and international experience of the national higher education and problems of integration of Russian higher education in the European educational space. In conclusion the main findings on this issue are given,the problems and achievements in this field are discussed. The paper argues that the creation of institutions of private education was one of the attempts of the Russian intelligentsia to pull the country out ofignorance and become a free society. The authors of the study substantiate the relevance of the historical experience of a free, non-state higher education for the development of modern higher education.