Political Authority and Party Secretaries in Poland, 1975-1986

Klappentext This book deals with the changing position and role of the Polish United Workers' Party and its apparatus between 1975 and 1986. Zusammenfassung This 1989 book deals with the changing position and role of the Polish United Workers' Party and its apparatus between 1975 and 1986. Their role and the way they perform it is seen as a major determinant of the nature of party leadership and! more generally! of the strength of political authority in communist states. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Communist power and party authority in Poland; 2. Provincial party secretaries: Polish officials in comparative perspectives; 3. Provincial party committees in Poland, 1975-80; 4. Indecision and odnowa: obstacles to re-establishing party authority; 5. Renewal and party authority: the extraordinary congress and its consequences; 6. The advance of the military; 7. Political normalisation and party authority; 8. The Polish road to political stability: ruling without authority; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Paul G. Lewis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521122863
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12286-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education