The article presents the issue of impact of neoliberal ideas on the contemporary Russian educational theory
and practice. The Russian system of education fully demonstrates the processes of transformation of
education from a field of spiritual culture into the socio-cultural system aimed at the investing into the
human capital. The authors see the roots in the contradictory methodological orientation of the construct of
the Russian social modernization after the collapse of the USSR. It is underlined that the influence is caused
by the absence of clear ideology in the post-Soviet Russia, destruction of the previous value system,
neglecting the cultural and historic traditions, uncritical assimilating the Western pedagogical experience.
The paper examines the realization of the neoliberal narratives (freedom, self, educational services,
competition, technologization) in the contemporary Russian education. The authors show the emergence of
the criticism ‘points’ of neoliberal education in the Western pedagogical community as well. First of all,
unacceptability of education capitalization, introduction of competition, dehumanization of a person as an
educational services consumer is realized. One can see that in the USA and the Western Europe there appear
the objective tendencies of rejection of the neoliberal globalism values and the development of the
traditionalist paradigms of education. The paper stresses the necessity of the scientific analysis and
professional pedagogical reflection on the significant contradictions, which show the crisis of neoliberal
developments in the Russian education.