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Subject(s)

• Poland—Politics and government—1945- [Browse]
• Poland—Politics and government—1980-1989 [Browse]
• NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization) [Browse]

Related name

• American Council of Learned Societies [Browse]

Editor

• Gross, Jan [Browse]

Series

• ACLS Humanities E-Book. [More in this series]
• Princeton Legacy Library ; 5315

Summary note

This book is not only an explanation of the political dynamic that led to the Polish "revolution" and the birth of Solidarity in 1980 and 1981 but an extremely important analysis of postwar East Central Europe. Although intimately involved with various aspects of Solidarity's activities, Jadwiga Staniszkis maintains a detached and critical attitude toward the movement. Dr. Saniszkis was one of seven advisers allowed in the Gdansk shipyard during the strikes of August 1980, negotiating on behalf of the workers. Offering interpretations of events made virtually as they were occurring, she is still able to weave these interpretations into an analytic scheme that is clearly the work of a profound and original sociologist. The author demonstrates how the authoritarian regime of Poland succeeded in incorporating and, as it were, domesticating developments that would be seen by a less astute observer (or by a traditional social scientist) as disruptive or threatening to the system's stability. Moving beyond analyses derived from totalitarian and interest group models for the study of "socialist" societies, she attempts to understand present-day Poland as a corporatist society. A sociologist of organizations, she clarifies the intricate system of mechanisms that compensates for the irrationalities produced by the ideological restrictions of Polish society. Sensitive to the symbolic manipulation in social control, she analyzes such phenomena as simulation of interest group representation and ritualization of the periodic crises of the regime. This work is a major contribution to our understanding of the so-called people's democracies. Jadwiga Staniszkis received her Ph.D. and habilitation (Docent) in sociology at the University of Warsaw. Her dissertation, "Pathologies of Organizational Structure," won the Polish Sociological Association Prize in 1976. Dr. Staniszkis visited the United States twice, as the fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and as a recipient of the Eisenhower Fellowship, Jan T. Gross is the author of Polish Society under German Occupation (Princeton).Originally published in 1984.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.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Editor's Preface
• Introduction
• CHAPTER I. Origins of Solidarity
• CHAPTER II. Self-Limiting Revolution. Winter 1980-Spring 1981
• CHAPTER III. Dynamics of Working-Class. Consciousness
• CHAPTER IV. Detotalization from Above, the 1970's
• CHAPTER V. Dynamics of the Political System after August 1980
• CHAPTER VI. Tragic Choices
• CHAPTER VII. Three Decades of Economic-Political Cycles
• CHAPTER VIII. October 1956 as a Ritual Drama: Case Study of Artificial Negativity
• CHAPTER IX. Concluding Reflections
• Epilogue. January 1982
• Index

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ISBN

• 0-691-65546-4
• 0-691-19624-9

OCLC

• 1027356749
• 1089616786

Doi

• 10.1515/9780691196244

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