{"product_id":"universities-under-dictatorship-john-connelly-9780271026954","title":"Universities Under Dictatorship","description":"\u003cp\u003eDictatorships destroy intellectual freedom, yet universities need it. How, then, can universities function under dictatorships? Are they more a support or a danger for the system? 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: Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Francoist Spain, Maoist China, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet bloc countries of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComparisons across these cases reveal that the higher-education policies of modern dictatorships were characterized by a basic conflict of aims. On the one hand, universities were supposed to propagate reigning ideology and serve as training grounds for a dependable elite. Consequently, university autonomy was restricted, research used for political legitimation, personnel policies subjected to political calculus, and many undesired scholars simply put out on the street. On the other hand, modern dictatorships needed well-educated scientists, physicians, teachers, and engineers for the implementation of their political, economic, and military agendas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommunist and fascist leaders thus confronted the basic question of whether universities should be seen primarily as producers of ideology and functionaries loyal to the party line or as places where indispensable knowledge was made available. Dictatorships that opted to subject universities to rigorous political control reduced their scholarly productivity. But if the institutes of higher learning were left with too much autonomy, there was a danger that they would go astray politically. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBesides the editors, the contributors are Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Michael David-Fox, Jan Havr nek, Ralph Jessen, Gy rgy P teri, Miguel  ngel Ruiz Carnicer, and Douglas Stiffler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Connelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271026952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271026954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.40w x 0.98d","brand":"John Connelly","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44756442349823,"sku":"9780271026954","price":83.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8876593-c598-4893-8558-98bf774b481c.jpg?v=1706593001","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/universities-under-dictatorship-john-connelly-9780271026954","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}