Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland

Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland
Author: Michael D. Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1991-02-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521390835

The Solidarity movement of the early 1980s not only triggered a transformation in Polish society, it forced a fundamental reconsideration of the nature of socialism throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Seen as one of the most important social movements of the century, this pathbreaking study analyses Solidarity's significance in Soviet societies.

Polish Politics and Society

Polish Politics and Society
Author: Frances Millard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134724462

An examination of political, social and economic development in Poland since the summer of 1989, with the main focus on democratization.

Rebuilding Poland

Rebuilding Poland
Author: Padraic Kenney
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801432873

The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience. Padraic Kenney argues that the postwar takeover was also a social revolution, in which workers expressed their hopes for dramatic social change and influenced the evolution--and eventual downfall--of the communist regime.Kenney compares Lödz, Poland's largest manufacturing center, and Wroclaw, a city rebuilt as Polish upon the ruins of wartime destruction. His account of dramatic strikes in the textile mills of Lödz shows how workers resisted the communist party's encroachment on factory terrain and its infringements of worker dignity. The contrasting absence of labor conflict among migrants in the frontier city of Wroclaw holds important clues to the nature of stalinism in Poland: communist power was strongest where workers lacked organizational ties or cultural roots. In the collective reaction of workers in Lödz and the individualism of those in Wroclaw, Kenney locates the beginnings of the end of the communist regime. Losing the battle for worker identity, the communists placed their hopes in labor competition, which ultimately left the regime hostage to a resistant work force and an overextended economy incapable of reform.

Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine
Author: Jon Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317827155

First published in 2004. The seventeen essays in this volume discuss the work of Alain Touraine and consider his contribution to the social sciences. The text includes his most recent thinkings on the market and communities.

Professions and the State

Professions and the State
Author: Anthony Jones
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781439901717

Unlike autonomous professionals in Western industrialized democracies, professionals in a socialist, bureaucratic setting operate as employees of the state. The change in environment has important Implications not only for the practice of professions but also for the concept of professionalism itself. This collection of nine essays is the first to survey the major professions In the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The contributors investigate the implications of professional experience in a socialist economy as well as relating changes in professional organization and power to reform movements in general and perestroika in particular. In the series Labor and Social Change, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Author: S. A. Smith
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199602050

Draws on documentation released since the fall of the Soviet Union to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century.

The East European Economy in Context

The East European Economy in Context
Author: David Turnock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134884281

Since 1989 the former communist countries of Eastern Europe have witnessed a profound and dramatic upheaval. The economic coherence of this region, formerly maintained through the adoption of the Soviet system of government, has fractured. In The East European Economy in Context: Communism and Transition, David Turnock examines the transition from communist to free-market economies, both within and between the states of Eastern Europe. As well as containing an informative survey of the impact of communism, The East European Economy in Context provides * Political profiles of individual countries * A clear study of the contrasts between northern and balkan groups * Summaries of regional variations in the transition process * An exploration of the new state structures and resources * Discussion of political stability, inter-ethnic tensions and progress in economic change

Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism

Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism
Author: Steven Saxonberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139619985

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, many scholars have sought to explain the collapse of communism. Yet, more than two decades on, communist regimes continue to rule in a diverse set of countries including China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam. In a unique study of fourteen countries, Steven Saxonberg explores the reasons for the survival of some communist regimes while others fell. He also shows why the process of collapse differed among communist-led regimes in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Based on the analysis of the different processes of collapse that has already taken place, and taking into account the special characteristics of the remaining communist regimes, Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism discusses the future prospects for the survival of the regimes in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam.

Anti-Communist Student Organizations and the Polish Renewal

Anti-Communist Student Organizations and the Polish Renewal
Author: Charles Wankel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 1992-06-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349125504

Offers an account of the key role of Polish student movements in the rebirth of their country. It provides a history of student activism in Poland and explains the context in which recent changes have occurred.

Poland's Protracted Transition

Poland's Protracted Transition
Author: Kazimierz Poznański
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521556392

This book, first published in 1997, offers an integrated study of institutional change in the Polish economy since 1971.