Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution
Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland
Description
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.
Author Bios
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).
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Publication date: July 29, 2014
Table of Contents
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
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Index
