This study of Soviet-style academic regime and its division into natural and social sciences in Hungary and east central Europe, includes conflicts between communist hacks and reformers, and the collision between state-socialist resource mobilization and the exchange of ideas with Western scholars.

The eight essays collected in this volume study the establishment in Hungary and east central Europe of a Soviet-style academic regime and its division into the natural and social sciences. The author recounts the intense conflicts that arose between communist party hacks and reformers, and the collision course between state-socialist resource mobilization and the free exchange of ideas with Western scholars.