Public knowledge in Cold War Poland : scholarly battles and the clash of virtues, 1945-1956 /

Public knowledge in Cold War Poland : scholarly battles and the clash of virtues, 1945-1956 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lochmatow, Alexej, author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. ©2024
Description:	xv, 257 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Poland: transnational histories
Subject:	Scholars -- Poland. Academic disputations -- Poland. Learning and scholarship -- Moral and ethical aspects. Professional ethics. Academic disputations Intellectual life Learning and scholarship -- Moral and ethical aspects Professional ethics Scholars Poland -- Intellectual life -- 1945-1989. Poland
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13473695

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ISBN:	9781032549491 1032549491 9781032549538 103254953X 9781003428251
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The author challenges the traditional narrative on the 'Sovietisation' of Central and Eastern European countries and proposes to see this process not as a spread of Marxist ideology or a Soviet institutional model, but as an attempt to force scholars to rapidly adopt new academic and civic virtues. This book argues that this project failed to succeed in Poland and shows how the struggle against these new virtues united both Marxist and non-Marxist scholars. While covering the arc of Polish scholarly debates, the author invites the reader to go beyond Poland and to use 'virtues' as a framework for reflections on both the foundations of scholarly practice and the 'nature' of authoritarian regimes with their ambition to teach scholars how to be 'virtuous.'"--
Other form:	Online version: Lochmatow, Alexej. Public knowledge in cold war Poland New York : Routledge, 2024 9781003428251

Table of Contents:

Introduction
From the War to the 'Gentle Revolution'
The many faces of the Soviet Union
The teachers of virtues: the French and the early post-War project
The Polish Intelligentsia and an anti-authoritarian vision of society
Between 'outdated' Marxism and 'updated' Catholicism
The 'failed' quest for unity
The school of 'new virtues'
'1956' as a 'diagnosis' and 'prognosis'
Epilogue: The concept of virtues as a lens.