Captive University: The Sovietization Of East G... Review

: Underwent the most complete "Sovietization." Universities were purged of "bourgeois elements," and the student body was successfully shifted toward those from worker and peasant backgrounds.

: Attempts to create a worker-peasant majority in universities largely failed despite Stalinist pressure. Captive University: The Sovietization of East G...

: Connelly emphasizes that a country's pre-war history and its specific experience during World War II heavily influenced how universities resisted or succumbed to Communist control. : Underwent the most complete "Sovietization