John Connelly

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Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 by John Connelly is an excellent comparative discussion of how higher education experienced communism and how those associated with it tried to infuse it with their own institutional framework. Connelly examines in close detail the three communist bloc countries mentioned in the title to argue that seeing them next to each other will reveal “historical development that would not be apparent if these three societies were examined separately.” The book questions the common idea that Sovietization and Stalinism in Eastern Europe were implemented uniformly and semi-equally across Eastern and Central Europe. Connelly contends that in actuality, there

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