Captive University
Subtitle: The Sovietization of  East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780807825556
Subjects: Higher & further education; History of specific subjects; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Higher; Higher Education And The State; Political Science; History; History - General History; Education; East Germany, DDR; Former Czechoslovakia; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Poland; Education / Curricula; Czechoslovakia; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Curricula; Eastern Europe - General; Communist education; Germany (East); Higher education and state
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.