Podgorecki presents his own participant observation of the
political and organizational pressures that were exerted upon
sociologists to produce dogmatically proper results to give a false
diagnosis of social reality. He analyzes the roles of Polish
sociologists as dissenters, observers, conformists, or eager agents
of the rapid and imposed changes designed to bring about an alien
communist utopia. Podgorecki synthesizes data pertinent to social
changes during the period of real socialism and the new system of
formal and informal stratification mainly based on the access to
formal power and its shadow counterparts.
Finally, he discusses the social stratum of the intelligentsia,
considered to be the vital link between the worker-based phenomenon
of Solidarity and the traditional Polish ethos, and their intricate
alliance that generated the sparks of the inflammatory revolution
that changed the face of Europe. Recommended for scholars and
students of sociology, political science, and East European
studies.
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