Shows that the communist system in science and higher education
was created less by an intentionally-imposed Soviet model than by
the pressures and agendas developed within communist societies to
reshape science and learning in successive periods of upheaval and
consolidation. The communist academic regime was considerably more
complex and historically contingent than previously recognized, as
the persistence of many of its features after the fall of communism
demonstrates.
The latest archival research by an international team of
scholars is brought together to produce the first comparative
treatment of the periods of upheaval that shaped the rise and fall
of the communist academic regime in Russia and East Central Europe.
This volume sheds new light on the question of a Soviet model by
examining how a particular Soviet system of science and higher
education emerged, how it was exported and imported across varying
local, national and international settings, and how key aspects of
it outlived the political system that fostered it. The contemporary
crises in science and higher education surrounding the demise of
communism appear as a distinctive break from the patterns set into
motion in the 1920s and 30s, but also as one more upheaval
following a long line of previous reorderings throughout the 20th
century that were conditioned by broader cataclysms in politics,
society, ideology, and culture.
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