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Attempts to discern where Russia fits in the categories cast by Monsma and Soper to describe the relationship between the state and religious education with such questions as those concerning religious classes in public schools and funding and regulation of religious schools. Finds that Russia transcends the three categories, which are "partial establishments," "strict separation," and "pluralist or structural pluralist" models. In the case of Russia, only religions established there prior to the 1917 revolution have any legal standing towards recognition. Diagrams the history of the state and its considerations of religious training beginning at the Bolshevik rise to power after the revolution, right up to today. One problem seen today goes beyond mere polemic as bureaucratic entanglements strangle the process of regulation and licensing of schools, accreditation of classes between private and public, secular and religious schools, and issues of discrimination against religion in general. Additionally, the curriculums of many schools are simply too loaded to find room for other religious classes that many pedagogues would like to see implemented. On the whole, finds a great, possibly the greatest problem, to be inconsistency throughout the system and hopes for standardization, towards whatever perspective that may be in the end. References. S. Fullmer