[PDF] The Polish Solidarity Movement eBook

Author : Tadeusz Kowalik
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Poland
ISBN : 1583672982

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In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, "really-existing" socialism has collapsed, capitalism has been restored, and Poland is now among the most unequal countries in the world. Kowalik asks, how could this happen in a country that once had the largest and most militant labor movement in Europe? This book takes readers inside the debates within Solidar

Author : Robert Brier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108478522

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Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.

Author : Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780006388494

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Timothy Garton Ash was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 when the trade union Solidarity was born, in opposition to the Communist government. He witnessed their bravery and defiance and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in the country's future president, Lech Walesa. This text recreates the ideals and terrors of that time, and exposes the mechanics of oppression of the communist regime.

Author : Lawrence Goodwyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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In the last year the world has been electrified as one Soviet bloc government after another has collapsed. But ten years before the events of the past year came the first successful challenge to the Leninist state--the shipworker's strike in Gdansk, which led to the first free trade union in the communist world. Here is a fascinating history of the Solidarity movement.

Author : Shana Penn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472031962

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The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime

Author : Idesbald Goddeeris
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739150707

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The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarnosc in the summer of 1980, the proclamation of martial law in December 1981, and Solidarnosc's underground activity in the subsequent years. In many countries, campaigns were set up in order to spread information, raise funds, and provide the Polish opposition with humanitarian relief and technical assistance. Labor movements especially stepped into the limelight. A number of Western European unions were concerned about the new international tension following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the new hard-line policy of the US and saw Solidarnosc as a political instrument of clerical and neo-conservative cold warriors. This book analyzes reaction to Solidarnosc in nine Western European countries and within the international trade union confederations. It argues that Western solidarity with Solidarnosc was highly determined by its instrumental value within the national context. Trade unions openly sided with Solidarnosc when they had an interest in doing so, namely when Solidarnosc could strengthen their own program or position. But this book also reveals that reaction in allegedly reluctant countries was massive, albeit discreet, pragmatic, and humanitarian, rather than vocal, emotional, and political.

Author : Arista M. Cirtautas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134740433

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This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity: the French and American Revolutions. This study undertakes the first full historical comparison of the Polish movement with the ideals and institutions of democracy achieved in the last three centuries.

Author : Andrzej Paczkowski
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1580465366

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Examines the 1980 Solidarity revolution in Poland, the government's subsequent establishment of martial law in response, in 1981, and the eventual transition to democracy in 1989.

Author : Jack M. Bloom
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004231801

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Jack M. Bloom presents a moving account of how an opposition developed and triumphed in communist Poland, showing the perspectives and experiences of the participants, while often letting them recount their own stories and explain their thinking.