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Student Politics in Communist Poland - Generations of Consent and Dissent (Hardcover)
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Student Politics in Communist Poland - Generations of Consent and Dissent (Hardcover)
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Student Politics in Communist Poland tackles the topic of student
political activity under a communist regime during the Cold War. It
discusses both the communist student organizations as well as
oppositional, independent, and apolitical student activism during
the forty-five-year period of Poland's existence as a Soviet
satellite state. The book focuses on consecutive generations of
students who felt compelled to act on behalf of their milieu or for
what they saw as the greater national good. The dynamics between
moderates and radicals, between conformists and non-conformists are
analyzed from the points of view of the protagonists themselves.
The book traces ideological evolutions, but also counter-cultural
trends and transnational influences in Poland's student community
as they emerged, developed, and disappeared over more than four
decades. It elaborates on the importance of the Catholic Church and
its role in politicizing students. The regime's higher education
policies are discussed in relation to its attempts to control the
student body, which in effect constituted an ever growing group of
young people who were destined to become the regime's future elite
in the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres and thus
provide it with the necessary legitimacy for its survival. The
pivotal crises in the history of Communist Poland, those of 1956,
1968, 1980-1981, are treated with a special emphasis on the
students and their respective role in these upheavals. The book
shows that student activism played its part in the political
trajectory of the country, at times challenging the legitimacy of
the regime, and contributed in no small degree to the demise of
communism in Poland in 1989. Student Politics in Communist Poland
not only presents a chronological narrative of student activism,
but it sheds light on lesser known aspects of modern Polish history
while telling part of the life stories of prominent figures in
Poland's communist establishment as well as its dissident and
opposition milieux. Ultimately, it also provides insights into
modern-day Poland and its elite, many of whose members laid the
groundwork for their later careers as student activists during the
communist period.
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