Description
Book SynopsisIn this volume, leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as subservience and resistance that characterized the relationship of universities to dictatorial regimes in communist and fascist states during the twentieth century.
Trade Review“Although the scholarship on the history of universities under dictatorships is extensive, this is the first volume to address this issue in comparative perspective. The book will help readers rethink the very content of the idea of ‘academic freedom.’”
—Mitchell Ash,University of Vienna
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Russian Universities Across the 1917 Divide
2. Italian Universities Under Fascism
3. German Universities Under the Swastika
4. Spanish Universities Under Franco
5. The Communist Idea of the University
6. Czech Universities Under Communism
7. Polish Universities and State Socialism, 1944–1968
8. Resistance to the Sovietization of Higher Education in China
9. Between Control and Collaboration
10. Concluding Reflections
Index
