In defence of learning. The plight, persecution, and placement of academic refugees, 1933-1980s

0366446 - ÚSD 2015 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Kostlán, Antonín - Štrbáňová, Soňa
Czech scholars in exile, 1948-1989.
In defence of learning. The plight, persecution, and placement of academic refugees, 1933-1980s. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2011 - (Marks, S.; Weindling, P.; Wintour, L.), s. 239-256. ISBN 978-0-19-726481-2
R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAAX00630801
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80630520
Keywords : Czech history * exile * science
Subject RIV: AB - History

This chapter focuses on the escape of scholars from Czechoslovakia in the years between 1948 and 1989, when the country was part of the Soviet power bloc. In this way, Czech science is slowly overcoming the disastrous loss caused by the emigration of its finest scholars.
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