Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution - Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland

Jack Bloom tells the story of Poland's revolution through the stories and experiences of its rank and file participants

List of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Patronage and Corruption in Communist Poland

PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF OPPOSITION

2. The First Systemic Crisis
3. ‘Living Parallel to the System’: The Solidarity Generation
4. A Line of Blood
5. An Opposition Emerges
6. Independent Organisations and Opposition

PART II: THE SOLIDARITY REVOLUTION

7. The Solidarity Explosion
8. Social Solidarity and the Victory of Solidarnosc
9. The Solidarity Revolution
10. The Solidarity Offensive
11. Bydgoszcz: the Turning Point
12. The Party at War with Itself

References
Index

About the author

Jack Bloom is Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Minority Studies and of History at Indiana University Northwest. He has published the award-winning Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement (Indiana University Press, 1987).

Summary

In 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by winning an independent union with the right to strike deep inside the Eastern Bloc. Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution uses 150 interviews with this struggle's leaders, their supporters, and their opponents to adroitly shows how an opposition was built and eventually forced the Stalinist government from power.

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: Jack Bloom, Jack M. Bloom
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2014
• EAN: 9781608463763
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-376-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political ideologies and movements, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General