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Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution

Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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In 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by demanding and winning an independent union with the right to strike, called Solidarity--the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Jack M. Bloom's Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution explains how it happened, from the imposition to Communism to its end, based on 150 interviews of Solidarity leaders, activists, supporters and opponents. Bloom presents the perspectives and experiences of these participants. He shows how an opposition was built, the battle between Solidarity and the ruling party, the conflicts that emerged within each side during this tense period, how Solidarity survived the imposition of martial law and how the opposition forced the government to negotiate itself out of power.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-09-13
Mått155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt804 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistorical Materialism Book Series
Antal sidor428
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004231801

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Jack M. Bloom, PhD., (University of California, Berkeley, 1980), is Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Minority Studies and of History at Indiana University Northwest. He has published Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement (Indiana University Press, 1987), which won second prize of the C. Wright Mills Award and received an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center.

Acknowledgements1. Patronage and Corruption in Communist PolandPART I: THE EMERGENCE OF OPPOSITION2. The First Systemic Crisis3. ‘Living Parallel to the System’: The Solidarity Generation4. A Line of Blood5. An Opposition Emerges6. Independent Organisations and OppositionPART II: THE SOLIDARITY REVOLUTION7. The Solidarity Explosion8. Social Solidarity and the Victory of Solidarność9. The Solidarity Revolution10. The Solidarity Offensive11. Bydgoszcz: the Turning Point12. The Party at War with ItselfReferencesIndex

"Die im Verlauf von mehr als fünfzehn Jahren entstandene Abhandlung von Jack M. Bloom zur Entstehung der polnischen Gewerkschaftsbewegung Solidarność und deren gewaltsamer Auflösung liefert einen empirischen Einblick in die Funktionsweise einer oppositionellen Massenbewegung, die im Sommer 1980 aus den Streiks der Hafenarbeiter in Gdańsk/Danzig entstanden ist." – Wolfgang Schlott, Universität Bremen, International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online XX-XXI/27-28 (2014/15)