Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe - The Polish Experience

Informationen zum Autor Jadwiga Staniszkis ! author of Poland: Self-Limiting Revolution (Princeton 1986) and Ontology of Socialism (forthcoming from Oxford)! resides in Warsaw! where she is a docent (associate professor) at Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology. Chester A. Kisiel is a professional translator living in Warsaw. Klappentext "This book broadens our perceptions of the most important breakthrough in East-Central Europe since World War II . . . intense! unorthodox and refreshing."-Vladimir Tismaneanu! University of Maryland Zusammenfassung Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. This title presents the breakthrough of 1989 in Eastern Europe as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events.

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• Authors: Jadwiga Staniszkis, Staniszkis Jadwiga
• Assisted by: Ivan Szelenyi (Foreword), Szelenyi Ivan (Foreword), Chester A. Kiesiel (Translation), Chester A. Kisiel (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.1991
• EAN: 9780520072183
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07218-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: History of the United States A; Society and Culture in East-Central Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business; Europe, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism