Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility within Higher Education in Socialist Poland.
The article focuses on Agata Zysiak’s book *Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility within Higher Education in Socialist Poland*, which examines why higher education in post-World War II Poland, particularly at the University of Łódź, remained an elite institution despite socialist reforms aimed at incr...
| Publicado en: | Polish Review Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 117 - 120 |
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University of Illinois Press
2026
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