Universities under dictatorship

Universities under dictatorship

by Connelly, John Grüttner, Michael

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"Dictatorships destroy intellectual freedom, yet universities need it. How, then, can universities function under dictatorships? Are they more a support or a danger for the system? In 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: Nazi …

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  • Full title :Universities under dictatorship / John Connelly and Michael Grüttner, editors.

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"Dictatorships destroy intellectual freedom, yet universities need it. How, then, can universities function under dictatorships? Are they more a support or a danger for the system? In 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: Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Francoist Spain, Maoist China, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet bloc countries of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2005.

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  • Description:x, 305 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0271026952, 9780271026954, 9780271058627, 0271058625
  • oclc:ocm57193082
  • LC Classification:LC171
  • Dewey Decimal:378/.00917

Table of Contents

Russian universities across the 1917 divide / Michael David-Fox -- Italian universities under fascism / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- German universities under the swastika / Michael Grüttner -- Spanish universities under Franco -- Miguel Ángel Ruiz Carnicer -- The communist idea of the university: an essay inspired by the Hungarian experience / György Péteri -- Czech universities under communism / Jan Havránek -- Polish universities and state socialism: 1944-1968 / John Connelly -- Resistance to Sovietization of higher education in China / Douglas Stiffler -- Between control and collaboration: the university in East Germany / Ralph Jessen.

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Subjects

Academic freedom Academic freedom -- History -- 20th cen… Dictatorship Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century Dictature -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Diktatur Enseignement supérieur -- Politique gou… Geschichte 1900-1990 Higher education and state Higher education and state -- History -… History Internationaler Vergleich Liberté de l'enseignement -- Histoire -… Universität

Writers

Connelly, John Grüttner, Michael

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