- Title Pages
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction<sup>1</sup>
- 1 ‘Protests Butter No Parsnips’: Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933–1938
- 2 A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA
- 3 From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933–1964
- 4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Max Perutz and the SPSL
- 6 Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
- 7 Eva and Esther
- 8 ‘Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World’: Philipp Schwartz (1894–1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft
- 9 Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933–1945
- 10 In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women
- 11 Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice
- 12 Austrian Refugee Social Scientists<sup>1</sup>
- 13 Plutarch’s Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945–2010
- 14 Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War
- 15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948–1989
- 16 ‘Bending the rules’: South African Refugees in the UK, 1960–1980
- 17 Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS‐SPSL Collaboration
- Postscript: Chilean Refugees
- Index
Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948–1989
Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948–1989
- Chapter:
- (p.238) (p.239) 15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948–1989
- Source:
- In Defence of Learning
- Author(s):
Antonín Kostlán
Soňa Štrbáňová
- Publisher:
- British Academy
The mobility of scholars is one of the significant social phenomena affecting scientific development. The mass exodus of intellectual elites from countries dominated by totalitarian regimes, however, represents a specific type of unwanted mobility or ‘forced migration’, which generally leads to devastating cultural and social damage over several generations. The historical experience of Czechoslovakia's waves of exile between 1918 and 1989 provides a suitable case for research into scientific exile in its varied forms. 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.
Keywords: Czechoslovakia, mobility, forced migration, exile, Soviet Union
British Academy Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
- Title Pages
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction<sup>1</sup>
- 1 ‘Protests Butter No Parsnips’: Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933–1938
- 2 A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA
- 3 From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933–1964
- 4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment<sup>1</sup>
- 5 Max Perutz and the SPSL
- 6 Esther Simpson: A Correspondence
- 7 Eva and Esther
- 8 ‘Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World’: Philipp Schwartz (1894–1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft
- 9 Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933–1945
- 10 In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women
- 11 Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice
- 12 Austrian Refugee Social Scientists<sup>1</sup>
- 13 Plutarch’s Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945–2010
- 14 Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War
- 15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948–1989
- 16 ‘Bending the rules’: South African Refugees in the UK, 1960–1980
- 17 Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS‐SPSL Collaboration
- Postscript: Chilean Refugees
- Index
