Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956

by John Connelly and John Connelly

Book Overview

This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, John Connelly offers a valuable case study showing how totalitarian states adapt their policies to the contours of the societies they rule.

The Communist dictum that universities be purged of "bourgeois elements" was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848654
• ISBN13: 9780807848654
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"