Description:
In this volume, leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as subservience and resistance that characterized the relationship of universities to dictatorial regimes in communist and fascist states during the twentieth century.
Brief description: John Connelly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Review Quotes:
"Although the scholarship on the history of universities under dictatorships is extensive, this is the first volume to address this issue in comparative perspective. The book will help readers rethink the very content of the idea of 'academic freedom.'"
--Mitchell Ash, University of Vienna