Captive University
Subtitle: The Sovietization of  East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780807848654
Subjects: Higher & further education; History of specific subjects; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Higher; Eastern Europe - General; Political Science; History; History - General History; Poland; Education; East Germany, DDR; Former Czechoslovakia; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Higher education and state; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Communist; Czech lands;  East Germany; Poland; 1945-56;  WWII;  East European Education;  Soviet Military Administration;  Sovietization; Marxism;  Leninism;  university policy; intelligentsia; Education / Curricula; Education-Higher; History / Europe / Eastern; Czechoslovakia; Curricula; Communist education; Germany (East)
First sentence: Before World War II, the basic goal of Soviet and East Central European universities was the same: to train specialists who would be useful in economic, political, and cultural life.