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Limiting Privilege
Agata Zysiak
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, and electrify cities—all within a single lifetime. Central to these initiatives was extending educational opportunities to the working class and creating a vision of an egalitarian socialist university that offered advancement for all. Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland traces the possibilities and limits of this goal by looking at a model socialist university established in 1945 in the working-class city of Łódź, Poland. Initially a flagship project of socialist modernization, the university tried to offer social advancement by privileging admission for peasant and working-class children, but these efforts were often fought by the elite who sought to preserve their privilege. By looking at first-generation students, intelligentsia faculty, and an industrial city, Limiting Privilege explores a complex story about utopian visions, failed aspirations, and reluctant academia.
Rezensionen
"This may well be the most important book on the history of communist Poland written so far this century, but that's not mainly why I'll be recommending it. Henceforth, if anyone expresses an opinion on affirmative action, the role of social justice commitments in academia, the use of quantified metrics in higher education, or the interplay between broader social structures and university policy, I'll ask them, 'Do you know Agata Zysiak's work? If not, read her new book, and then we'll talk.'"
"This volume captures an epochal clash that occurred in early Stalinist Poland between universities bent on maintaining ivory tower freedoms and a communist regime determined to make them tools of radical social reform. Neither side intended the end result. Universities were modernized and helped millions move up the social ladder, while becoming loyal servants of the system; yet they remained bastions of privilege stuck in feudal trappings, which produced the most cutting dissent in the Soviet Bloc. In her humane and dispassionate study, Zysiak takes readers to the heart of controversies and drama, remaining attuned to social theory while never losing sight of the humans who make history."
Kundenbewertungen
postwar Poland, higher education under state socialism, socialist university, state socialism, classicism, social imaginary, working-class education, professors biography, socialist privilege, Łódź, biographical interview, social structure, intelligentsia reproduction, communism, first-generation students, Polish People’s Republic, socialist modernization, upward mobility, egalitarian socialism, hysteresis, reform