|
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
|
Buy Now
Poland's Self-Limiting Revolution (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,321
Discovery Miles 33 210
|
|
|
Poland's Self-Limiting Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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 attitutde 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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
