: 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.
: Attempts to create a worker-peasant majority in universities largely failed despite Stalinist pressure. Captive University: The Sovietization of East G...
: The regime was less successful. Fear of losing expertise led the Polish Party to keep potentially disloyal "pre-war" professors in their positions, hoping they would train a new, loyal intelligentsia. : Connelly emphasizes that a country's pre-war history
In , the more thoroughly "Sovietized" universities remained loyal to the state until its collapse, with students largely absent from the 1989 revolution. Critical Reception hoping they would train a new
