: Connelly emphasizes that a country's pre-war history and its specific experience during World War II heavily influenced how universities resisted or succumbed to Communist control.
In , the more thoroughly "Sovietized" universities remained loyal to the state until its collapse, with students largely absent from the 1989 revolution. Critical Reception Captive University: The Sovietization of East G...
In and Czechoslovakia , students whose institutions remained somewhat autonomous eventually spearheaded major reform movements in 1968 and 1989. : Connelly emphasizes that a country's pre-war history