[PDF] The Polish Solidarity Movement In Retrospect eBook

Author : Ireneusz Krzemiński
Publisher : Studies in Political Transition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9783631672709

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This book is a collection of essays which span three decades, capping research into the Polish Solidarity movement and its impact on social change. The major one reports on the author's 1981 study on the formation of the Solidarity movement and trade union, one of two research projects on Solidarity carried out at the time. The idea of debating (deliberative) democracy fostered by Solidarity proved an unfulfilled utopia. It was abandoned by the new political elite and by Poles, who used freedom to develop individual, ambitious and aggressive career paths in order to attain West-European living standards. While Polish religiosity and the Catholic Church, led by Pope John Paul II, vitally promoted peaceable resistance to communism, now the Church has morphed into an anti-democratic political and cultural actor.

Author : Arista M. Cirtautas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 25,3 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 : Lawrence Goodwyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 14,71 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 : Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,35 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 : William Perdue
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 1995-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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A historical perspective on the social changes in Poland.

Author : Margarethe Adams
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0822987503

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Steppe Dreams concerns the political significance of temporality in Kazakhstan, as manifested in public events and performances, and its reverberating effects in the personal lives of Kazakhstanis. Like many holidays in the post-Soviet sphere, public celebrations in Kazakhstan often reflect multiple temporal framings—utopian visions of the future, or romanticized views of the past—which throw light on present-day politics of identity. Adams examines the political, public aspects of temporality and the personal and emotional aspects of these events, providing a view into how time, mighty and unstoppable, is experienced in Kazakhstan.

Author : Jan Kubík
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814724264

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"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."