Academia and the People - Universities, Knowledge Communities, and Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe, ca. 1900-2025

For the societies of Central and Eastern Europe, the century since the Balkan Wars has been a time of profound ruptures. The contributors to this volume examine how academic communities lived through different transitions, such as the collapse of empires, the two World Wars, the Yugoslav and the post-Soviet wars. How did academic institutions relate to informal or underground social movements? What is the place of refugee scholars in the current moment of Russian expansionism? As they rethink the history of Europe's universities, the authors offer a new understanding of how knowledge communities have shaped, and been shaped by, upheaval, bridging the gap between histories of knowledge and new political histories of the region.

Product details

• Assisted by: Friedrich Cain (Editor), Dina Gusejnova (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.12.2025
• EAN: 9783837677997
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-7799-7
• No. of pages: 330
• Illustrations: 20 SW-Abb., 10 Farbabb.
• Series: New Europes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Education, University, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, HISTORY / General, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, General & world history, Central Europe, Philosophy & theory of education, Culture and institutions, History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines, Education, research, related topics of history, History of Europe, Russia and neighboring east European countries, Academic Community, Long 20th Century