Author: Martin R. MyantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Poland, a Crisis for Socialism
Author: Martin R. MyantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Poland
Author: Sam MarcyPoland
Author: Martin R. MyantThe Crisis of Socialism in Europe
Author: Christiane LemkePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822311973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the "crisis" of socialism. Is socialism in ideological, electoral, or organizational decline? Is the decline inevitable or can socialism be revitalized? This volume draws together historians and political scientists of Eastern and Western European politics to address these questions. The collection begins with an historical overview of socialism in Western Europe and moves toward the suggestion of a framework for a post-socialist discourse. Among the topics covered are: the birth and death of communism and a regime type in Eastern Europe; how different forms of national communism were smothered by Sovietization in the postwar period; the origins of revolutions in Eastern Europe; the potential for social democracy in Hungary; the role of the Left in a reunified German; and directions for the Left in general. Contributors. Geoff Eley, Konrad Jarausch, Herbert Kitschelt, Christiane Lemke, Andrei Markovits, Gary Marks, Wolfgang Merkel, Norman Naimark, Iván and Szonja Szelénya, Sharon Wolchik
Polish Communism in Crisis
Author: George SanfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Collapse of State Socialism
Author: Bartolomiej KaminskiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400862019
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a general theory and then applies it to the case of Poland. Contending that the breakdown of state socialism results from symbiosis of the state and the economy, the book describes how communist governments searched for tools that would replace the market mechanism and the rule of law. Doomed in advance by the absence of autonomy and competition, this search generated new crises by undermining the state's capacity to suppress individual interests and to direct the economy. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Class Struggle in Socialist Poland
Author: Albert SzymanskiPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Will the Crisis of Communism Begin in Poland?
Author: Rett R. LudwikowskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland, 1980-1989
Author: Andrzej PaczkowskiPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Examines the 1980 Solidarity revolution in Poland, the government's subsequent establishment of martial law in response, in 1981, and the eventual transition to democracy in 1989.
Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland
Author: Michael D. KennedyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521390835
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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.