Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781612498812)

State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities--all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Lź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.

Author: Agata Zysiak
ISBN-10: 1612498817
ISBN-13: 9781612498812
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2023
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d