• Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution
1 1

Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution

$40.00
$0.00 $40.00
Sold out
Jack Bloom tells the story of Poland's revolution through the stories and experiences of its rank and file participants
  • 29 July 2014
View Product Details
In 1980 Polish workers astonished the world by winning an independent union with the right to strike deep inside the Eastern Bloc. Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution uses 150 interviews with this struggle's leaders, their supporters, and their opponents to adroitly shows how an opposition was built and eventually forced the Stalinist government from power.
files/i.png Icon
Price: $40.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Historical Materialism
Publication Date: 29 July 2014
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9781608463763
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Labour / income economics, Political ideologies and movements
REVIEWS Icon
Jack Bloom is Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Minority Studies and of History at Indiana University Northwest. He has published the award-winning Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement (Indiana University Press, 1987).

Acknowledgements

1. Patronage and Corruption in Communist Poland


PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF OPPOSITION

2. The First Systemic Crisis
3. ‘Living Parallel to the System’: The Solidarity Generation
4. A Line of Blood
5. An Opposition Emerges
6. Independent Organisations and Opposition


PART II: THE SOLIDARITY REVOLUTION

7. The Solidarity Explosion
8. Social Solidarity and the Victory of Solidarnosc
9. The Solidarity Revolution
10. The Solidarity Offensive
11. Bydgoszcz: the Turning Point
12. The Party at War with Itself

References
Index