Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1 Russian Universities Across the 1917 Divide -- 2 Italian Universities Under Fascism -- 3 German Universities Under the Swastika -- 4 Spanish Universities Under Franco -- 5 The Communist Idea of the University: An Essay Inspired by the Hungarian Experience -- 6 Czech Universities Under Communism -- 7 Polish Universities and State Socialism, 1944-1968 -- 8 Resistance to the Sovietization of Higher Eduction in China -- 9 Between Control and Collaboration: The University in East Germany -- Concluding Reflections: Universities and Dictatorships -- INDEX