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9780807825556

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

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    9780807825556

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    0807825557

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary

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 accomplished most fully in East Germany, where more and more students came from worker and peasant backgrounds. But the Polish Party kept potentially disloyal professors on the job in the futile hope that they would train a new intelligentsia, and Czech stalinists failed to make worker and peasant students a majority at Czech universities.Connelly accounts for these differences by exploring the prestalinist heritage of these countries, and particularly their experiences in World War II. The failure of Polish and Czech leaders to transform their universities became particularly evident during the crises of 1968 and 1989, when university students spearheaded reform movements. In East Germany, by contrast, universities remained true to the state to the end, and students were notably absent from the revolution of 1989.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1(18)
PART I. SOVIETIZATION 19(52)
Soviet and Central European Systems of Higher Education
22(9)
Dynamics and Avenues of Sovietization
31(27)
Soviet Models in East Central European Higher Education
58(13)
PART II. THE LEGACY OF THE OLD PROFESSORIATE 71(134)
Sources of Legitimacy and Cohesion in the Interwar and War Years
80(15)
The Foundations of the Early Postwar Years
95(11)
Struggles for the University
106(20)
Breaking the Professoriate
126(16)
The Power of Society and the Power of Milieu
142(20)
The Meaning of Milieu
162(18)
The Milieu of the Party
180(25)
PART III. THE NEW STUDENT 205(77)
The Difficulties of Creating Marxist-Leninist Consciousness
208(18)
Polish and East German Student Admissions
226(23)
Czech and East German Peculiarities
249(33)
Conclusion 282(11)
Notes 293(106)
Bibliography 399(22)
Index 421

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