The Last Flight of Pegasus: The Story of the Polish Academy of Science and Letters and of the Warsaw Scientific Society, 1945-1952
The Last Flight of Pegasus: The Story of the Polish Academy of Science and Letters and of the Warsaw Scientific Society, 1945-1952
Author(s): Piotr HübnerSubject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Political history, Social history, Government/Political systems, History of Education, State/Government and Education, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Education
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Polish scientific societies; Polish Academy of Science; Warsaw Scientific Society; freedom of science; freedom of publication; human rights; 1945-1952;
Summary/Abstract: The two biggest scientific societies in Poland, the Polish Academy of Science and Letters (the Academy) and the Warsaw Scientific Society (the Society) did not restrict the fundamental academic idea-the freedom of science. For them the freedom of science was a derivative of constitutional human rights-the freedoms of speech and of publication. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 13/1999
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 71-116
- Page Count: 46
- Language: English
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