Academia and state socialism
Subtitle: essays on the political history of academic life in post-1945 Hungary and Eastern Europe
By: György Péteri.
Series: Atlantic studies on society in change ;; no. 94; East European monographs ;; no. 501
Publisher: Social Science Monographs; Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc.; Distributed by Columbia Univ. Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo; Highland Lakes, N.J; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Szent-Györgyi, Albert, 1893-1986.; Communism and science -- Hungary -- History.; Communism and social sciences -- Hungary -- History.; Communism and intellectuals -- Hungary -- History.; Education and state -- Hungary -- History.; Communism and science -- Europe, Eastern -- History.; Hungary -- History -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Science between two worlds: the foreign relations of Hungary's academia, 1945-1949; title: Scientists versus scholars: the prelude to communist takeover in Hungarian science, 1945-1947; title: Academic elite into scientific cadres: a statistical contribution to the history of Hungary's Academy of Sciences, 1945-1949; title: Modernity versus democracy: the politics of Albert Szent-Györgyi, 1945-1947; title: The politics of statistical information and economic research in communist Hungary, 1949-1956; title: New course economics: the field of economic research in Hungary after Stalin, 1953-1956; title: Controlling the field of academic economics in Hungary, 1953-1976; title: On the legacy of state socialism in academia.