Abstract
This essay analyses the Ford Foundation's intellectual exchange programme in Poland between 1957 and 1961. Emerging in the novel context of Washington's emphasis on cultural diplomacy and Warsaw's exceptional position in the East Bloc following October 1956, the Foundation's programme was the earliest complex scholarly initiative by a US organization aimed at Europeans under Communist rule. Consequently, for a brief window of time, the Foundation was able to operate an unprecedentedly open exchange under uniquely liberal terms. The programme's genesis and operations will be explained, as well as the reasons for its abrupt suspension and its long-term implications. In particular, I will argue that through the programme, the Foundation played a significant role in rebuilding and shaping the social sciences in post-Stalinist Poland.
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