The roots of Solidarity : a political sociology of Poland's working-class democratization /

In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to the interests of the Polish state." Laba...

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Main Author: Laba, Roman, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Series:Princeton legacy library
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • ONE. Introduction
  • Part I. The Demystification of the Party-State
  • Two. Massacre and Memory: Gdansk and Gdynia, 1970
  • THREE. The Three-Day Worker Republic: The General Strike in Szczecin
  • FOUR. Gierek: The Road to Confrontation
  • Part II. The Anatomy of a Democratic Movement
  • FIVE. The Vanguard versus Workers' Self-Government
  • Six. Solidarity at the Grass Roots
  • SEVEN. Sacred Politics
  • EIGHT. The Ideological Origins of Solidarity
  • NINE. Fashionable Myths and Proletarian Realities
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index