Academia in Upheaval: Origins, Transfers, and Transformations of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central Europe

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Part I Introduction xv
• Chapter 1: on the Origins and Demise of the Communist Academic Regime 3
• Part II the Origins 37
• Chapter 2: The Formation of the Soviet Academy of Sciences 39
• Chapter 3 the Assault on the Universities and the Dynamics of Stalin's "Great Break," 1928-1932 73
• Chapter 4 - Stalinism and Science: Physics and Philosophical Disputes in the Ussr, 1930-1955 105
• Part III the Transfers 139
• Chapter 5 the Sovietization of Higher Education in the Czech Lands, East Germany, and Poland During the Stalinist Period, 1948-1954 141
• Notes 165
• Chapter 6 Lysenkoism in Europe: Export-Import of the Soviet Model 179
• Appendix: Chronology of Michurinist Meetings in 1948 in the Ussr 197
• Appendix: Chronology of Michurinist Meetings in 1948 in the Ussr 199
• Chapter 7: Science Between Two Worlds 203
• Part IV the Transformations: Continuities and Discontinuities After 1989 223
• Chapter 8: The Academy Versus the Rest 225
• Chapter 9 How Willing Are Scientists to Reform Their Own Institutions? 255
• Notes 272
• Chapter 10 on the Legacy of State Socialism in Academia 275
• Epilogue: the Legacy Revisited 294
• Epilogue: the Legacy Revisited 297
• Part V Conclusion 301
• Chapter 11 - Scholars Steer Their Ships Through the Turbulent Seas of History 317
• Name Index 319
• Subject Index 325
• About the Editors and Contributors 333

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