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The Polish August (Paperback)
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The Polish August (Paperback)
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What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the
last twenty five years, but only the events of 1980 have had
comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been
raised in the minds of Western observers. How were such changes
possible? What forces lay behind them? In what way did the workers'
strike relate to the demands for political democracy? Although a
colourful and vivid eye-witness account of the 1980 upheavals, it
is to these questions that Neal Ascherson's brilliant and
thoughtful analysis mainly addresses itself. Viewing the situation
in perspective, he argues that the Polish working class has brought
about a controlled revolution, but is not intent on taking power
for itself: the real heirs to the gains of 1980 and 1981 are likely
to be the intelligentsia, in or out of the Communist Party. It is
this social and political ferment that poses fundamental questions
about the future of the whole Soviet system in Eastern Europe.
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